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Byblos

Phoenicia

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.

Teachers who lived here

Works composed here

  • De diversis verborum significationibus (= Περὶ διαφόρους σημασίας κατ’ ἀλφάβητον) (epitome operis Herennii Philonis)

    by Philo of Byblos