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Manetho

Manetho (3rd century BC). Egyptian priest who wrote a Greek history of Egypt; his work survives only in quotations (Josephus, Syncellus, Eusebius).

• The Egyptian Dynasties c. 3rd century BC Manetho’s king-list fragments as preserved through Syncellus and Eusebius: the dynasties of Egypt, including the Hyk-shos (Shepherd-kings) of the Fifteenth Dynasty and the Theban recovery. English from Isaac Preston Cory’s Ancient Fragments (Hodges 1876 revision).