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1 1 I should therefore like to weaken my over-sharp contrast (Lightfoot 2003: 90) between the Herodotean master-text and the Hellenistic specialist commentary.

2 2 Philo identifies linguistically as a Greek (1.10.51). For Philo’s likely proficiency in Phoenician, see Barr 1974–1975: 43–44.

3 3 Though his work was not fixated on Phoenicia. It also looked outwards, especially to Egypt, while still giving the Phoenicians priority (1.10.32, 38).

4 4 Despite Eusebius’s claim that Sanchuniathon testified that the same gods were still worshipped in the cities and country districts (1.19.22).

5 5 In Diod. Sic. 3.60.4 the couplings of the seven daughters of Atlas give rise to genealogies of gods and culture heroes (but there are no pairs of siblings).

6 6Hecataeus is a possible example of Euhemerism before Euhemerus (Murray 1970: 151 and n.4), though the relative chronology of the two works is tight.