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Wikipedia kirjoitti:Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History", wrote the Histories that established Western historiography
Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC – c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty
Manetho (3rd century BC), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) who lived during the Ptolemaic era
Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC – ?), Roman history
Gaius Acilius, (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
Sima Qian, (c. 145 – c. 86 BC), Chinese history, compiled the Records of the Grand Historian
Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history
Sallust, (86–34 BC)
Liu Xiang (scholar), (79–8 BC) (Chinese Han Dynasty), Chinese history
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 – after 7 BC), Roman history
Livy, (c. 59 BC – c. 17 AD), Roman history
Marcus Velleius Paterculus, (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history
Ban Biao, (3–54), (Chinese Han Dynasty), started the Book of Han that was completed by his son and daughter
Quintus Curtius Rufus, (c. 60–70), Greek history
Ban Gu, (32–92), (Chinese Han Dynasty)
Flavius Josephus, (37–100), Jewish history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historians

Polyester kirjoitti: Vaikea tuommoista on tietysti 100-varmasti toteen näyttää, mutta ainakin Berossos lienee käyttänyt myös kirjallisia lähteitä.

Ja jos Danielin kirjan kirjoittaja onkin tiennyt paljon asioita Babyloniasta, on hän myös erehtynyt monessa asiassa.

Wikipedia kirjoitti:The first six books covered the history of Assyria and Babylon to the foundation of the Persian empire; the remaining seventeen went down to the year 398 BC. Of the two histories, we possess abridgments by Photius, and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Plutarch, Nicolaus of Damascus and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second book is mainly from Ctesias.

Markku Meilo kirjoitti:Toi Yleistä uskonnosta -osio siivoutuu automaattisesti, ei tämä.