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Schuster, 2003), pp. ix, 453. In the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology,
12th impression (London: Hamlyn, 1977), pp. xi, 500, R. Graves gives accounts of
early ideas from fourteen civilisations, including Egypt, Babylonia, Greece,
Germany and Scandinavia, India, the Far East, Africa and Oceania. F. A. Wright's
Lemprie
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re's Classical Dictionary (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951) is an
invaluable source of information about the classical world. Manfred Lurker's excel-
lent volume The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames & Hudson,
1974), pp. 142 documents, explains and illustrates the significance of many deities
and customs. Dennis Dean's essay 'The Age of the Earth controversy: beginnings to
Hutton', Annals of Science 38 (1981), 435-456 gives a brief but useful synopsis of
pre-Christian thinking about the Earth's age.
Chapter 2. Biblical calculations
The most recent biographical study of Theophilus is that by Rick Rogers,
Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-Century Bishop (Lanham
MD: Lexington Books, 2000).
Useful accounts of the work of James Ussher and his life are given by
J. A. Carr, The Life and Times of Archbishop Ussher (London: Gardner, Darton &
Co., 1895); Robert Buick Knox, James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 1967); and Philip Styles, 'James Ussher and his times',
Hermathena 88 (1956), 12-33. Ussher's works were reprinted in 17 volumes by
C. R. Elrington, The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher: With a Life of
the Author, and an Account of His Writings (Dublin: Hodges & Smith; London:
Whittaker & Co., 1847-1864). For a discussion on the manuscripts of James Ussher
held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin see Bernard Meehan's essay in Peter
Fox (ed.), Treasures of the Library, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin: Royal Irish
Academy, 1986), pp. 97-110.
Papers that deal with chronological work by Ussher, Lightfoot and others
include R. L. Reese, S. M. Everett and E. D. Craun, 'The chronology of Archbishop
James Ussher', Sky and Telescope 62, part 5 (1981), 404-405; William R. Brice,
'Bishop Ussher, John Lightfoot and the age of creation', Journal of Geological
Education 30, part 1 (1982), 18-24; James Barr, 'Why the world was created in
4004 B.C.: Archbishop Ussher and biblical chronology', John Rylands University
Library of Manchester Bulletin 67 (1985), 575-608; Stephen Jay Gould, 'Fall in the
House of Ussher', Natural History 11 (1991), 12-21 [reprinted as Chapter 12,
pp. 181-193 in Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (London:
Penguin Books, 1993)]; D. P. McCarthy, 'The biblical chronology of James
Ussher', Irish Astronomical Journal 24, part 1 (1997), 73-82, which recounts the
