Manetho

Manetho
Author: Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Publisher: Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2018-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 8885519652

Our knowledge of Manetho is uncertain, but we can affirm three things that are: his homeland, his priesthood in Heliopolis and his activity for the introduction of the cult of Serapis. The name Manetho can be explained as "The Truth of Thoth", and under the XIX Dynasty it is described as "First Priest of the Truth of Thoth". "Manetho" is from the Coptic "spouse" "herdsman" "horse", but the word does not seem to appear elsewhere as a proper name. Under the name of Manetho, Suida seems to distinguish two writers: Manetho di Mendes in Egypt, chief priest who wrote about the realization of Kyphi and Manetho di Diospoli or Sebennytus, works "A Treatise on Physical Doctrines" and "Apotelesmatica" (or Astrological Influences), in verses hexameters, and other astrological works. He describes himself as "High priest and scribe of the holy shrines of Egypt, born in Sebennytus and living in Heliopolis". To Manetho we owe the division into thirty dynasties of the history of ancient Egypt, this subdivision is partly confirmed also by other sources such as the Royal Canon.

Manetho: History of Egypt and Other Works

Manetho: History of Egypt and Other Works
Author: Manetho
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

Manetho was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos who lived during the Ptolemaic era, approximately during the 3rd century BC. His work, especially his chronology of the Pharoahs, is of great interest to Egyptologists.

Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica

Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica
Author: J. L. Lightfoot
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1160
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192868470

The corpus of astrological material ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho consists of six books of poetry. This book serves as the companion to the one published by OUP in 2020, which was the first commentary in any language on the earliest three books of Manetho's poetry (two, three, and six as they appear in the manuscript). This volume supplies the remainder (books four, one, and five). Manetho was credited with a series of didactic poems which list outcomes for planetary set-ups in a birth chart. The books covered in this volume are not as easily dated as those in the first volume, but the most recent is probably no later than the fourth century and they are still Egyptian. As in the first volume, their descriptions of the kinds of person who are born under happy and unhappy configurations of stars speak to the lived realities, aspirations, and fears of the astrologer's clientele. Unlike in the first volume, however, the individual books treated here have different authors, and there is more emphasis on profiling individual poets in terms of style, metre, and mannerisms. As in the first volume, there is a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works. But this volume pays more attention to the transmission of traditional material from one author to another, and to the special approach required of an editor of material which, being in practical use, circulated in unstable and minutely-varying textual forms.

Manetho Demystified--Third Edition

Manetho Demystified--Third Edition
Author: Marianne Luban
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781974435838

Every serious student of ancient Egyptian history and chronology will come across the writings of Manetho of Sebennytos sooner or later. This is the most comprehensive and easiest to digest explanation and analysis currently in print of what is behind Manetho's history of his native land and the so-called epitomes made from his "Aegyptiaca" at a later date. While, in 2012, Marianne Luban raised the understanding of Manetho to a new level, subsequent discoveries mandate this Third Edition of her popular work.

Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six

Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six
Author: J. L. Lightfoot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780198858782

This is the first commentary in any language on three of the books of ancient Greek astrological poetry ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho. The volume includes a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works.

Ps.-Manethonis Apotelesmatica

Ps.-Manethonis Apotelesmatica
Author: Claudio De Stefani
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017
Genre: Astrology
ISBN: 9783954902002

Die vorliegende Edition von De Stefani basiert auf den sechs Buchern von Apotelesmatica (astrologischen Gedichten auf griechischen Hexametern, 2.-5. Jhdt. n. Chr.), die falschlicher Weise dem agyptischen Manetho zugeschrieben wurden. Der Herausgeber hat die Handschriften, die das Werk uberliefern, neu zusammengetragen. Die letzte kritische Ausgabe des Ps.-Manetho, wurde von Hermann Koechly 1858 verfasst und beruht auf der Kollation der wichtigsten Handschrift von Jacob Gronovius von 1698. Die neue Edition wird von einer Beschreibung der Textuberlieferung des Ps.-Manetho, seines Stils und Sprachgebrauchs eingeleitet und bietet dazu einen Nachtrag und ein umfangreiches Wortverzeichnis.

The Classical Review

The Classical Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1897
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN:

This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World
Author: John Granger Cook
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3161560019

John Granger Cook traces the use of the penalty by the Romans until its probable abolition by Constantine. Rabbinic and legal sources are not neglected. The material contributes to the understanding of the crucifixion of Jesus and has implications for the theologies of the cross in the New Testament. Images and photographs are included in this volume.