Ancient Fragments
1828–1832
Public-domain collection of Greek and Latin fragments of Phoenician, Chaldean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, and related writers—Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Manetho, the Tyrian Annals, Hanno, and the Chaldean Oracles—gathered by Isaac Preston Cory.
Translated by Isaac Preston Cory
English translations and notes by Isaac Preston Cory (d. 1842), public domain. Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Megasthenes, Zoroaster, Hermetic/Orphic/Pythagorean fragments, and the theogonies: digital text via Internet Sacred Text Archive (sacred-texts.com/cla/af/). Manetho dynasties, Tyrian Annals, and the Periplus of Hanno: Hodges’s 1876 revision (Internet Archive corysancientfrag00coryuoft).
Contents
- Introductory Dissertation
- The Theology of the Phoenicians: from Sanchoniatho
- Berossus: from Alexander Polyhistor
- Berossus: from Apollodorus
- Berossus: from Abydenus
- Berossus: from Josephus and others
- Megasthenes: from Abydenus
- Supplemental Chaldean Fragments
- The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster
- Hermetic Fragments
- Orphic Fragments
- Pythagorean Fragments
- The Theogonies
- The Tyrian Annals: from Dius and Menander
- The Periplus of Hanno
- Manetho: The Egyptian Dynasties (Book I)
- Manetho: Second Book
- Manetho: Third Book