Manetho / Manetho ; with an English translation by W.G. Waddell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manetho.

Contributor:

Waddell, W. G. (William Gillan), 1884-1945.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 350.

Loeb classical library ; 350

Standardized Title:

Works. English & Greek

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 256 pages, 466 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heineman, 1980.

Summary:

Manetho was an Egyptian of the 3rd 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 Sô this." These survive only as quoted by other writers. This volume also contains the doubtful "Kings of Thebes" (in Egypt) and the "Old Chronicle."

Notes:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages xxix-xxxi.

ISBN:

0674993853

OCLC:

13483528