Manetho
3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest
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An Egyptian priest under the Ptolemies who wrote the first Greek history of Egypt — and then vanished. Every line of his original text is lost, but the fragments copied by later writers became the backbone of Egyptian chronology for two thousand years.
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Manetho lived in the early third century BCE, during the opening years of the Hellenistic period, when Greek-speaking rulers sat on the throne of Egypt. A priest writing under Ptolemy I or II, he composed the Aegyptiaca — a history of Egypt in Greek — sometime between 285 and 246 BCE. The original work did not survive antiquity. What remains are fragments quoted by later classical and late antique authors, second-hand transmissions of a text no one can read whole. Until hieroglyphs were deciphered in the early 19th century, those fragments were the primary window into Egyptian chronology. They…
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