Berossus

Berossus (also spelled Berosus), Greek: Βεροσσος, fl. at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, was a priest of Baal in Babylonia. Around 281 BC he wrote three books in Greek on the (rather mythological) history of Babylonia, the Babyloniaca, for the new ruler Antiochus I. Unfortunately, his works have been lost, and remain only in fragmentary form preserved by other writers. It is said that later he founded a school of astrology on the Greek island of Kos