Manetho

ISBN: 978-0-674-99385-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 115 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

Reihe: Loeb Classical Library

Ancient Egyptian history in Greek. Manetho was an Egyptian of the third century BC. Born probably at Sebennytus in the Delta, he became a priest or high priest at Heliopolis. Apparently he and a Greek Timotheus did much to establish the cult of Serapis in Egypt. Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to him, all on history and religion and all apparently in Greek: Aegyptiaca, on the history of Egypt; The Sacred Book on Egyptian religion; An Epitome of Physical Doctrines On Festivals On Ancient Ritual and Religion On the Making of Kyphi (an incense); The Criticisms of Herodotus and the spurious Book of Sôthis. These survive only as quoted by other writers. This volume also contains the doubtful Kings of Thebes (in Egypt) and the Old Chronicle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manetho

Weitere Mitwirkende

Waddell, W. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Waddell, W. G.
William Gillan Waddell (1884–1945) was Professor of Classics at Fuad el-Awal University, Cairo.