Babyloniaca (Berossus), Babyloniaca
''Babyloniaca'' may refer to: *'' Babyloniaca'', a lost historical work of Berossus *', an ancient Greek novel of Iamblichus (novelist) See also *Graeco-Babyloniaca The Graeco-Babyloniaca (singular: Graeco-Babyloniacum) are clay tablets written in the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using cuneiform on one side with transliterations in the Greek alphabet on the other. Quoting Edmond Sollberger: As worded b ...

Babyloniaca (Berossus)
The ''Babyloniaca'' is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. The ''Babyloniaca'' is structured into three books. The first recounts Babylonian geography and a variant of the cosmogony of the Enūma Eliš, as well as the transition of the existence of man prior to the divine law and after it had been revealed. The second and third books largely concern kingly genealogies and an account of the Mesopotamian flood myth. An English edition of the text was first published by Burstein in 1978. A detailed study on the sources Berossus consulted for the third and final book of the ''Babyloniaca'' has been produced as well as one on his conception of the creation story ( Eridu Genesis). Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, and was known to a limited extent in learned circles a ...
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Iamblichus (novelist)
Iamblichus (; 165–180 AD) was an ancient Syrian Greek novelist. He was the author of the ''Babyloniaca'' (, , 'Babylonian Stories'), a romance novel in Greek. If not the earliest, it was at least one of the first productions of this kind in Greek literature. Life Iamblichus was an Emesene who achieved wide prominence in the 2nd century. He describes himself as being "descended from the ancient dynasts", i.e. the Sampsigeramids. Iamblichus had the knowledge of three languages: Assyrian, Babylonian and Greek. Iamblichus was educated in Babylon, and didn't become acquainted with the Greek language until later in his life. After having lived at Babylon for a number of years, he was taken prisoner and sold as a slave to a Syrian, who, however, appears to have set him free again. He is said to have acquired such a perfect knowledge of Greek that he even distinguished himself as a rhetorician. For a time, he lived in Armenia, when it was ruled by the Roman client king; his fellow ...
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