Berossus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Protrepticus
Author cited (Chaldaic Affairs) for the Persians' later adoption of human-form statue worship, introduced by Artaxerxes.
After many cycles of years, however, they too came to reverence statues of human form, as Berossus shows in the third book of his Chaldaic Affairs, this having been introduced by Artaxerxes son of Darius son of Ochus, who first set up the statue of Aphrodite Anaïtis in Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana, and showed the Persians and Bactrians and Damascus and Sardis to reverence it.
Stromata
Berossus, Chaldean historian, cited as the source for the account of Nebuchadnezzar's campaign.
And in the twelfth year of the reign of Sedekias, Nebuchadnezzar, seventy years before the rule of the Persians, marched against the Phoenicians and the Jews, as Berossus says in his Chaldean histories.