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Title: History of Egypt and Other Works
Condition: New
EAN: 9780674993853
ISBN: 9780674993853
Publisher: LOEB
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 01/01/1940
Item Height: 162mm
Item Length: 108mm
Item Weight: 200g
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674993853
Description:

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.

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