ABSTRACT
In Christian Byzantium and in the other countries that forged cultural links with it, the conviction was well established from the start that after the 'universal deluge,' the human species multiplied from the three sons of the biblical Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Each had received a specific part of the Earth, which was peopled by their descendants. That is why in medieval Byzantium one finds authors elaborating the genealogy of known peoples, determining whether the origin of each of them was Shem, Ham or Japheth and what their location and language were. Based on such data, there appeared Liber Generationis and Diamerismos Διαμερισμός, as they are known in scholarly literature. Such genealogical schemes were translated from the Greek and [further] elaborated by other peoples.
