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Most of the ancient witnesses group him together with Berossos, and treat the pair as similar in spirit, and it is no coincidence that those who preserved the bulk of their writing are largely the same ( Josephus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Syncellus ).

Certainly, both wrote about the same time, and both adopted the historiographical approach of the Greek historians, Herodotus and Hesiod, who preceded them.

While the subjects of their history are different, the form is similar, using chronological royal genealogies as the structure from which the narratives came.

Both extend their histories far into the mythic past, to give the gods rule over the earliest ancestral histories.