fl. c. 300 B.C. Egyptian priest whose chronicle of his nation's history established the framework for the study of Egypt. His history, now lost, was in Greek, and probably had been commissioned by Ptolemy I (r. 305-282 B.C.). Elements of...

Manetho, also known as Manethon of Sebennytos, was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) who lived during the Ptolemaic era, ca. 3rd century BC. Manetho recorded Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt). His work is of...