Manetho

American  

[man-uh-thoh] / ˈmæn əˌθoʊ /

noun

1. flourished c250 b.c., Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.

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Example Sentences

The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

To the gods and demigods Manetho allows twelve Sothis periods, i. e. 17,520 Julian years.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

The thirty-eight kings enumerated in this list are placed beside the first fourteen dynasties of Manetho.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

According to a passage in Manetho, much suspected, however, of being an interpolation, Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus had himself, before the cataclysm, inscribed on stelæ in hieroglyphical and sacred language the principles of all knowledge.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

Under the reign of Pepi, as well as his immediate predecessors and successors, i. e., in the sixth dynasty of Manetho, the development of Egypt must have undergone a certain change.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max