Demetrius, the Chronographer
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Name (Latin)
Demetrius, the Chronographer
Other forms of name
Demetrius, the Chronicler
Gender
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- Clio's other sons, 2014:t.p. (Demetrius); text (Demetrius the Chronographer; may have been a Jew who lived in Alexandria [Egypt] in the last quarter of the 3rd cent. BCE about 50 years after Manetho and Berossus)
- English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 11, 2016(Demetrius the Chronographer or Demetrius the Chronicler was a Jewish chronicler (historian) of the late 3rd century BCE, who prob. lived in Alexandria and wrote in Greek)
- Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., 2007:v. 5, p. 549 (Demetrius, earliest known Greco-Jewish writer; he lived during the reign of Ptolemy IV (221-204 B.C.E.); seven remnants of his work survive plus a mention in Josephus; Fragment One, about 4/5[ths] of all his texts, deals with patriarchal chronology [Biblical patriarchs])
Wikipedia description:
Demetrius the Chronographer (or Demetrius the Chronicler; Ancient Greek: Δημήτριος) was a Jewish chronicler (historian) of the late 3rd century BCE, who lived probably in Alexandria and wrote in Greek.
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