Abydenus or Abydenos ( grc, Αβυδηνός, Abudinós) was a
Greek
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historian who wrote a history of
Assyria
Assyria ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the ...
and
Babylonia entitled ''On the Assyrians''. Only some fragments are preserved by
Eusebius
Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Chris ...
in his ''
Praeparatio Evangelica'' and the
Armenian
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translation of his ''
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* ''Chronicon'' (Eusebius)
* ''Chronicon'' (Jerome)
*'' Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham''
*''Chronicon Burgense''
*'' Chronicon Ambrosianum''
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''; by Cyril of Alexandria in his work against the Emperor Julian (emperor), Julian; and by George Syncellus.
It is uncertain when he lived. He made use of the ''Chaldaika'' of Alexander Polyhistor, who wrote between 80 and 40 BC, and the earliest writer to cite him is Eusebius, writing around AD 300. Abydenus could have been alive at any point between these dates, but he most likely worked during the Second Sophistic in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
[Craige B. Champion, "Abydenos (''FGrH'' 685)", ''The Encyclopedia of Ancient History'' (Wiley, 2015). ] Cyril states that he wrote in the Ionic Greek, Ionic dialect. He is to be distinguished from Palaephatus, Palaephatus Abydenus, who lived in the time of Alexander the Great.
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Ionic Greek writers
Hellenistic-era historians
History of Assyria
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