rich Wrote:
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> Katherine,
> Do you have any info on this Barbarus edition of
> Manetho? My links below seem very incomplete.
> Rich
>
>
> "Other significant fragments include Malalas'
> Chronographia and Excerpta Latina Barbari"

Malalas wrote an interpretation of Manethian history called Chronographia, which included fragmented statements about the predynastic and early dynastic kings of Egypt which purportedly came from Manetho. The Excerpta Latina Barbari, which means "fragments in bad Latin," are similar statements about the early periods of kingship in Egypt, written by an unknown author in poor Latin.

Probably your best bet in understanding the various books and fragments of Manetho history found in later works is to read this work, which is considered one of the best analyses of the Manethian history transmission:

Verbrugghe, G. P. and J. M. Wickersham 1996. Berossos and Manetho: Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

HTH.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom