Philo of Byblos [SEP] date of death
Philo of Byblos
Philo of Byblos (, "Phílōn Býblios"; ;  – 141 ), also known as Herennius Philon, was an antiquarian writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek. He is chiefly known for his Phoenician history assembled from the writings of "Sanchuniathon".
Life.
Philo was born in the first century in Byblos in Lebanon. "He lived into the reign of Hadrian, of which he wrote a history, now lost." His name "Herennius" suggests
come during the spring, as rain in the spring could ruin the crops.
Religion and mythology Phoenician sources.
A Phoenician account survives in a paraphrase of the Greek author Philo of Byblos by Eusebius, who writes of a Phoenician historian named Sanchuniathon. In this account Death is a son of 'El and counted as a god, as the text says in speaking of 'El/Cronus:
... and not long afterwards he consecrated after his death another of his sons, called Muth, whom he had by Rhea