Manetho
3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest · Writers · Born 201 BC
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Something wrong?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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Excerpt from Manetho, with an English translation by W.G. Waddell, p. ix.
No likeness of Manetho exists. This is a bust of a Neokoros, a senior official in the temple cult of Serapis (a Hellenistic appropriation of Osiris and Apis) from Roman Egypt, 230-240 CE, over three centuries after Manetho lived. The circlet with the seven-rayed sun disk in the hair identifies his position. Manetho was an authority on the temple cult of Serapis. Marble. Altes Museum, Berlin.
Statue of a priest of Osiris, Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, 1st century CE. Le Grand Palais exhibition.
Fragments of Manetho's AegyptiacaAbout this person
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 still matter in Egyptology today, a ghost text holding up the scaffold of an entire ancient timeline.
Writers born in the 210s BC 6
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