Manetho
3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest
Summary
Manetho was an Egyptian priest of the Ptolemaic Kingdom who lived in the early third century BCE, at the very beginning of the Hellenistic period. Little is certain about his life. He is known today as the author of a history of Egypt in Greek called the Aegyptiaca, written during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter or Ptolemy II Philadelphus. None of Manetho’s original texts have survived; they are lost literary works, known only from fragments transmitted by later authors of classical and late antiquity.
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/* Anti-Jewish Charges */Took out a random ending sentence. It previously discussed Menetho’s passages framing the Jewish population being group of sick outcasts lead by a rebellious leader.l and how this created some of the founding trope for antisemitism, but then it added an ending line to support its claim by saying it’s tropes are found in the writing of Karl Marx? It makes no actual listing of a spruces just a vague remark that is not explained, not cited specifically, and really as i...
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/* The fragments of Manetho */ IMHO FGrH doesn't really need a citation. It's widely known and very widely cited; the curious reader need merely search.
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/* Further reading */ add a PDF article from Univ. of Harvard's website
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