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Manetho

201 BC - 160 BC

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Manetho (; Koinē Greek: Μανέθων Manéthōn, gen.: Μανέθωνος) is believed to have been an Egyptian priest from Sebennytos (Coptic: Ϫⲉⲙⲛⲟⲩϯ) who lived in the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the early third century BC, during the Hellenistic period. He authored the Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) in Greek, a major chronological source for the reigns of the kings of ancient Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manetho has received more than 694,546 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Manetho is the 14th most popular historian, the 50th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Historian.

Manetho is most famous for his Aegyptiaca, which is a history of Egypt.

Memorability Metrics

  • 690k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Manetho ranks 14 out of 561. Before him are Polybius, Tacitus, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Diodorus Siculus, and Hecataeus of Miletus. After him are Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade, William of Tyre, Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 201 BC, Manetho ranks 1. After him are Eucleidas, Adherbal, and Sextus Julius Caesar. Among people deceased in 160 BC, Manetho ranks 2. Before him is Judas Maccabeus. After him are Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Kanada, Quintus Servilius Caepio, Apollonius of Tralles, Nicomedes II of Bithynia, Nicomedes III of Bithynia, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, and Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus.

Others Born in 201 BC

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    Manetho

    HISTORIAN

    201 BC - 160 BC

    HPI: 76.08

    Rank: 1

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    Eucleidas

    POLITICIAN

    201 BC - 222 BC

    HPI: 61.35

    Rank: 2

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    Adherbal

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    201 BC - Present

    HPI: 59.14

    Rank: 3

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    Sextus Julius Caesar

    POLITICIAN

    201 BC - Present

    HPI: 54.74

    Rank: 4

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Others Deceased in 160 BC

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Manetho ranks 50 out of 642. Before him are Sneferu (-2700), Ramesses III (-1217), Thutmose I (-1600), Philo (-15), Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (-62), and Farouk of Egypt (1920). After him are Smenkhkare (-1400), Tiye (-1398), Cleopatra I Syra (-204), Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922), Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921), and Shoshenq I (-1000).

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Among HISTORIANS In Egypt

Among historians born in Egypt, Manetho ranks 1. After him are Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Al-Maqrizi (1364), Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754), Yahya of Antioch (980), Al-Nuwayri (1279), and H. A. R. Gibb (1895).

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