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Manetho studied antediluvian texts (1)

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 		Keywords
kings
lists
Manetho
Period
2nd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires 		Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Manetho 208-209 (Waddell):
It remains now to make brief extracts concerning the dynasties of Egypt from the work of Manetho of Sebennytus. In the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus he was styled high-priest of the pagan temples of Egypt, and wrote from inscriptions in the Sēriadic land (Egypt), traced, he says, in sacred language and holy characters by Thot, the first Hermes, and translated after the Flood … into hieroglyphic characters. After the work had been arranged in books by Agathodaemon, son of the second Hermes (Trismegistus) and father of Tat, in the temple-stories of Egypt, Manetho dedicated it to the above king Ptolemy II Philadelphus in his Book of Sothis.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Manetho 208-209 (Waddell)

Bibliography

Plessner 1954, 56Plessner, M. “Hermes Trismegistus and Arab Science.” Studia Islamica 2 (1954) 45-59.

Amar Annus


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