Manetho
Autore di Manetho
Sull'Autore
Opere di Manetho
Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt (1996) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- fl. 3c. BC
- Data di morte
- fl. 3c. BC
- Sesso
- male
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Egypt
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Western Canon (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 176
- Popolarità
- #121,982
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 1
It's interesting to note that while the cases of Berossos and Manetho are in many important ways parallel - both were hellenized native priests who used local written traditions (largely ignored by Greek writers) to write Greek-style histories of their native countries, and both those histories have come down to us only in fragments - the historiographical fates of their work are quite different. Berossos' is effectively a curiosity, with little impact on how we understand Babylonian history. Manetho's still provides the framework for Egyptian chronology and it appears we owe the very word "dynasty" to him.… (altro)