Aegyptiaca
3rd-century BCE history of Egypt written in Greek, now lost
Aegyptiaca
The Aegyptiaca (Koine Greek: Αἰγυπτιακά, Aigyptiaka, "History of Egypt") was a history of ancient Egypt written in Greek by Manetho (fl. 290–260 BCE) at the beginning of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. It was a comprehensive history of ancient Egypt and continues to be an important resource in the refinement of Egyptian chronology. His work provided a clear chronology of Egypt from the first pharaoh of a unified Upper and Lower Egypt, dated by modern historians to 3100 BCE, to just before Alexander's entry into the country following the Siege of Gaza in 332 BCE. Manetho prefaced his human chronology with the history of a mythical era of divine rule that linked Egyptian gods with their Greek counterparts, an equivalence already established by Manetho's time. The complete text of the Aegyptiaca has not survived and is now a lost literary work; indirect literary fragments of the text do, however, remain. The most substantial of the fragments are regnal lists which allowed Egyptologists to...
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