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Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid- free paper 2018 2017 2016 2015 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Dillery, John, 1961– Clio’s other sons : Berossus and Manetho : with an afterword on Demetrius / John Dillery. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 472- 07227- 9 (hardback : alkaline paper)— ISBN 978- 0- 472- 05227- 1 (paperback : alkaline paper)— ISBN 978- 0- 472- 12045- 1 (e- book) 1. Berosus, the Chaldean— Criticism and interpretation. 2. Manetho— Criticism and interpretation. 3. Berosus, the Chaldean. Babyloniaka. 4. Manetho. Aegyptiaca. 5. Babylonia— Historiography. 6. Egypt— Historiography. 7. Historiography— Greece— History— To 1500. 8. Greek literature— History and criticism. I. Title. PA3944.B3D55 2014 This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)73.149.241.153 on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:39:29 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP For Ludwig Koenen This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)73.149.241.153 on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:39:29 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)73.149.241.153 on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:39:29 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP Contents Part 1 History Matters Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Part 2 The Vectors of History: Time and Space Chapter 2 Time: Berossus, Manetho, and the Construction of King Lists 55 Chapter 3 Space: Regional Perspective and Authentication in Berossus and Manetho 123 Part 3 Narrative History Chapter 4 The Great Narratives: Introduction 195 Chapter 5 Berossus’ Narratives 220 Chapter 6 Manetho’s Narratives 301 Chapter 7 Conclusion to Narratives 348 After Words Ending with Demetrius: Demetrius the Chronographer 357 Bibliography 389 Indexes 443 Index Verborum 443 Index Locorum 445 General Index 457 This content downloaded from 73.149.241.153 on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:40:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 73.149.241.153 on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:40:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP Preface Berossus and Manetho— Who Were They? This seems a fitting place to consider why I have written this book. To state my case, I need first to introduce my subjects. I will then move on to a discussion, under several heads, of why they make worthwhile topics for a monograph. There is not much to go on, in truth, but it is all we have.1 In the earliest years of the Hellenistic Age (the first quarter of the third century BC), in Se- leucid Babylon and Ptolemaic Egypt, two men set down to write histories from the foundation of civilized life to contemporary or near-c ontemporary times. Berossus (Gk. rendering of Bel-r e’u- shunu, “Bel (the Lord) is their shepherd”), a Babylonian, was a priest of Bel- Marduk; Manetho (meaning not known for certain, but possibly “Shepherd (i.e.) guardian of the temple”), an Egyptian, was also a priest, residing at Heliopolis in the Delta, a little less than fifty kilo- meters north of Memphis.2 It is curious that the element “shepherd” may occur in both their names. Both saw the world and its past chiefly through the lenses of their own cultures—i ndeed, primarily as human history centered on their respective priestly localities. Berossus’ work was called the Babyloniaca (or pos- sibly Chaldaïca), Manetho’s the Aegyptiaca. As their titles suggest, both works, though histories of their native lands, remarkably were written in the Greek language. Furthermore, while each work covered human history from its earli- est periods as conceived of within the frameworks of Babylonian and Egyptian civilization— cultures that were literally millennia old by the start of the third century BC— each history contained a mere three books.3 1. For the scarcity of verifiable information about Berossus and Manetho, see, e.g., for Beros- sus, Burstein (1978) 5 and Kuhrt (1987a) 33 and 36–3 7; for Manetho, Redford (1986) 203–4 and Gozzoli (2006) 191. 2. For the name of Berossus, see de Breucker (2010) ad T 1; for that of Manetho, Moyer (2011) 85 n.5 3. 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