Complete Works of Manetho Quotes

“58. Thuôris, 50 years. This is the Polybus of Homer, who appears in the Odyssey as husband of Alcandra: the poet tells how Menelaus and Helen dwelt with him in their wanderings after the capture of Troy.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“This king, fleeing from his brother Ramessês, also called Aegyptus, was driven from his kingdom of Egypt and came to Greece. Ramessês, his brother, whose other name was Aegyptus, ruled Egypt for 68 years, changing the name of his country to Egypt after his own name. Its previous name was Mestraea, and among the Greeks Aeria.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“Kyphi is a mixture of sixteen ingredients — honey, wine, raisins, cyperus [? galingale], resin, myrrh, aspalathus, seselis [hartwort]; mastic, bitumen, thryon [a kind of reed or rush], dock [monk’s rhubarb], as well as of both junipers (arceuthids — one called the greater, the other the less), cardamom, and reed [orris-root, or root of sweet flag].”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“5. Nechaô the Second, for 6 years: he took Jerusalem, and led King Iôachaz captive into Egypt. 6. Psammuthis the Second, for 6 years. 7. Uaphris, for 19 years: the remnant of the Jews fled to him, when Jerusalem was captured by the Assyrians.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The Twenty-fifth Dynasty consisted of three Ethiopian kings. 1. Sabacôn, who, taking Bochchôris captive, burned him alive, and reigned for 12 years. 2. Sebichôs, his son, for 12 years. 3. Taracus, for 20 years.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“Divine wrath is due to impious deeds, not to physical deformities. 257 Next, how could 80,000 lepers and invalids be gathered together in practically a single day? The prophet had bidden him expel the cripples from Egypt, but the king cast them into stone-quarries, as if he needed labourers, not as if his purpose was to purge the land. 258 Manetho says, moreover, that the prophet took his own life, because he foresaw the anger of the gods and the fate in store for Egypt, but left in writing his prediction to the king. 259 Then how was it that the prophet had not from the first foreknowledge of his own death?”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“248 Meanwhile, the Solymites [or dwellers in Jerusalem] made a descent along with the polluted Egyptians, and treated the people so impiously and savagely that the domination of the Shepherds seemed like a golden age to those who witnessed the present enormities. 249 For not only did they set towns and villages on fire, pillaging the temples and mutilating images of the gods without restraint, but they also made a practice of using the sanctuaries as kitchens to roast the sacred animals which the people worshipped: and they would compel the priests and prophets to sacrifice and butcher the beasts, afterwards casting the men forth naked. 250 It is said that the priest who framed their constitution and their laws was a native of Hêliopolis, named Osarsêph after the god Osiris, worshipped at Hêliopolis; but when he joined this people, he changed his name and was called Moses.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The Seventeenth Dynasty consisted of Shepherds, who were brothers from Phoenicia and foreign kings: they seized Memphis. The first of these kings, Saïtês, reigned for 19 years: from him, too, the Saïte nome derived its name. These kings founded in the Sethroïte nome a town from which they made a raid and subdued Egypt. The second king was Bnon, for 40 years. Next, Archlês, for 30 years. Aphophis, for 14 years. Total, 103 years. It was in their time that Joseph appears to have ruled in Egypt.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The Sixteenth Dynasty were kings of Thebes, 5 in number: they reigned for 190 years.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The Fifteenth Dynasty consisted of Shepherd Kings. There were six foreign kings from Phoenicia, who seized Memphis: in the Sethroïte nome they founded a town, from which base they subdued Egypt. The first of these kings, Saïtês, reigned for 19 years: the Saïte nome is called after him. 2. Bnôn, for 44 years. 3. Pachnan [Apachnan], for 61 years. 4. Staan, for 50 years. 5. Archlês, for 49 years. 6. Aphôphis, (Aphobis), for 61 years. Total, 284 years.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“These six kings, their first rulers, were ever more and more eager to extirpate the Egyptian stock. 82 Their race as a whole was called Hyksôs, that is ‘king-shepherds’: for hyk in the sacred language means ‘king’, and sôs in common speech is ‘shepherd’ or ‘shepherds’; hence the compound word ‘Hyksôs’. Some say that they were Arabs.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“Tutimaeus. In his reign, for what cause I know not, a blast of God smote us; and unexpectedly, from the regions of the East, invaders of obscure race marched in confidence of victory against our land. By main force they easily seized it without striking a blow; 76 and having overpowered the rulers of the land, they then burned our cities ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of the gods, and treated all the natives with a cruel hostility, massacring some and leading into slavery the wives and children of others.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The Seventh Dynasty consisted of seventy kings of Memphis, who reigned for 70 days.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“Biophis, in whose reign it was decided that women also might hold the kingly office. In the reigns of the three succeeding kings, no notable event occurred.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“But if the number of years is still in excess, it must be supposed that perhaps several Egyptian kings ruled at one and the same time; for they say that the rulers were kings of This, of Memphis, of Saïs, of Ethiopia, and of other places at the same time.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“The year I take, however, to be a lunar one, consisting, that is, of 30 days: what we now call a month the Egyptians used formerly to style a year.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho

“Book Two was also of particular interest to Josephus, where he equated the Hyksos or “shepherd-kings” with the ancient Israelites that made their famous exodus out of Egypt.”
― Manetho, Complete Works of Manetho