- Taautus
Taautus of Byblos, according to the Phoenician writer
Sanchuniathon , was the inventor ofwriting and son ofMisor who was bequeathed the land ofEgypt byCronus .Sanchuniathon and the translation of his work by
Philo were transmitted to us byEusebius , in his work "Caesarea's Praeparatio". Eusebius says that Philo placed Sanchuniathon's works into nine books. In the introduction to the first book he makes this preface concerning Sanchuniathon:“These things being so, Sanchuniathon, who was a man of much learning and great curiosity, and desirous of knowing the earliest history of all nations from the creation of the world, searched out with great care the history of Taautus, knowing that of all men under the sun Taautus was the first who thought of the invention of letters, and began the writing of records: and he laid the foundation, as it were, of his history, by beginning with him, whom the Egyptians called Thoyth, and the Alexandrians
Thoth , translated by the Greeks intoHermes .”Philo further says that Taautus wrote the work "
Commentaries ", in which he discussed the creation.
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