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::" Perhaps Berossos was a prisoner of his own methodology and purpose.
He used ancient records that he refused to flesh out, and his account of more recent history, to judge by what remains, contained nothing more than a bare narrative.
If Berossos believed in the continuity of history with patterns that repeated themselves ( i. e., cycles of events as there were cycles of the stars and planets ), a bare narrative would suffice.
Indeed, this was more than one would suspect a Babylonian would or could do.
Those already steeped in Babylonian historical lore would recognize the pattern and understand the interpretation of history Berossos was making.
If this, indeed, is what Berossos presumed, he made a mistake that would cost him interested Greek readers who were accustomed to a much more varied and lively historical narrative where there could be no doubt who was an evil ruler and who was not.
" ( 2000: 32 )

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