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Manetho

Born in the second half of the fourth century B.C.; died at the beginning of the third century B.C. Ancient Egyptian historian; head priest in Heliopolis; a native of the city of Sebennytos.

Manetho wrote the History of Egypt in Greek; it has survived only as excerpts quoted by Flavius Josephus and the church historians Africanus and Eusebius. The division of Egyptian history into 30 dynasties and three periods—the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom—was made by Manetho (and is accepted by modern scholarship, with certain refinements, to the present day). The Soviet academician V. V. Struve has proved that Manetho used reliable sources: most of the information he presents is accurate.

PUBLICATION

[Works]. With an English translation by W. G. Waddell. Loeb Classical Library, London, 1948.

REFERENCES

Struve, V. V. “Manefon i ego vremia.” Zapiski kollegii vostokovedov. Vol. 3, issue 1, Leningrad, 1928. Vol. 4, Leningrad, 1930.
Struve, V. V. “Podlinnyi Manefonovskii spisok tsarei Egipta i khronologiia Novogo tsarstva.” Vestnik drevnei istorii, no. 4, 1946.

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