De diversis verborum significationibus (= Περὶ διαφόρους σημασίας κατ’ ἀλφάβητον) (epitome operis Herennii Philonis)
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Philo of Byblos
Philo of Byblos
c. 64 CE–c. 141 CE · Byblos
Philo of Byblos (c. 64-c. 141 CE) was a Greek-writing scholar from the Phoenician city of Byblos, best known for a Phoenician History that claimed to translate ancient Phoenician traditions about the gods and the origins of the world. The work survives only in quotations by later writers and is an important, if debated, source for Phoenician religion. He is distinct from the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria.
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About Byblos
Byblos, modern Jbeil on the coast of Lebanon, was one of the oldest continuously inhabited Phoenician cities. It was the home of Philo of Byblos, a Greek-writing author of the late first/early second century AD best known for a Phoenician History purporting to draw on the older writer Sanchuniathon.
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