Preliminary material -- THE MAIN PROBLEMS -- THE GREEK TEXT -- BIOGRAPHICAL DATA -- PORPHYRY'S ACCOUNT OF SANCHUNIATHON -- PHILO'S ACCOUNT OF SANCHUNIATHON -- THE COSMOGONY -- THE DISCOVERERS -- THE LIFE OF KRONOS -- KRONOS' VICTORY and PHILO'S CONCLUSION -- CHILD SACRIFICE and SNAKES -- CONCLUSIONS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.

Philo of Byblos in the early Roman imperial period claimed to have translated the work of an ancient author Sanchuniathon who recorded stories of the ancient Canaanite gods, stories that resemble the myths found in Ugaritic sources. This monograph provides an English translation of Philo's Greek text with an introduction and notes.

The Ancient Fragments is a collection of texts that provide a fascinating insight into the religious beliefs and mythology of ancient Greece and its neighbors. Originally collected in the 18th century, these texts are some of the earliest known accounts of the creation of the world, the genealogies of the gods, and the ancient rituals of worship. The book contains fragmentary accounts from a variety of writers, including Sanchoniathon, Hesiod, and Apollodorus. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of religion or mythology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a poorly understood group. In this Handbook, the first of its kind in English, readers will find expert essays covering the history, culture, and areas of settlement throughout the Phoenician and Punic world.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 edition. Excerpt: ... posterity; who treading in the steps of their degenerate Parents, reinforc'd Idolatry, after the Flood had wasli'd it away for a time. This I observe only in passing, to make it clear that Sanchoniatho was so far from writing from informations agreeing with Moses, that he openly owns other, and opposite teachers, and accordingly writes little or nothing but what is design'd to serve the religion that Moses oppos'd. REMARK VII. Of Japhet's line. The beginning of the peopling Attica. Of the Pelafgi, and of the Sicyonian Kings. Worship of Reliques. Meno his time determ'm'dinVlmy from Anticlides. 1Must not neglect to observe, that besides Cronus and his children, on whom our author insists largely, he doth briefly mention another line, as concern'd in Ouranus's affairs, 32. /. 1. beginning with rimg. In this line, which he affirms not to be fee deriv'd from Cronus DEGREES but to be contemporary with him, he intimates Nereus to be the first, from him descends Tontus, with whom Typhon is join'd; from Tontus descends Tosidon, whom the Latins call Neptune, and a famous woman for songs call'd Sidon. Here I find less light to guide me than in other parts of this history, which I bear the more patiently, because no considerable part of the history is obscur'd by this dark passage. Nevertheless > because I believ'd our author more than Hefiod and Afollodorus, Greek writers of those times, who yet agree, that these deities belonging to the sea are in the fame line, but make Tontus the father of Nereus: I shall take Nereus for the first of this line, and at least conjecture who he is. Wherefore* since he and his race are put to be contemporary to Ham and his issue, and we have also found Shem under the name Sydyc, it remains that we take Japhet with

"With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She explains networks of circulation, shows creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies."---Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks --