Aegyptiaca

Αἰγυπτιακά (written in Greek)

Manetho of Sebennytos, an Egyptian priest · c. 280s BC · Sebennytos (Egypt) · history

An Egyptian priest writing in Greek for a Macedonian king organizes three thousand years of native king-lists into the thirty-dynasty framework that all later chronology of Egypt, ancient and modern, still uses. Composition-context note: though written in Greek, Manetho was an Egyptian priest of Heliopolis working from Egyptian temple records for an Egyptian institutional purpose, so this entry is classed Egypt rather than Greece.