Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia ( el, Δωρόθεος Μονεμβασίας) is the name given to the unknown author (or compiler) of a Greek-language
chronicle
A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...
titled ''Historical Book'' (Βιβλίον Ιστορικόν), published at
Venice
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in 1631. The work contains a history of the world from
Creation
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Religion
*'' Creatio ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing
*Creation myth, a religious story of the origin of the world and how people first came to inhabit it
*Creationism, the belief that ...
until the early 17th century, and purports to have been written by a non-existent
metropolitan
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of
Monemvasia named Dorotheos. The book became a popular source of historical knowledge during the period of
Ottoman rule in Greece.
17th-century Greek historians
Greek pseudepigrapha
Chroniclers
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