George Syncellus (“sin-KELL-us”) claimed that this man wrote the Book of Sothis (“SO-tiss”), which lists the kings of a place he calls Mestraea. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historian, whose works have been partially preserved in lengthy quotations by Josephus in Against Apion. His most famous work claims that the area it discusses was first inhabited by Hephaestus (“huh-FESS-tus”).
ANSWER: Manetho [or Manéthōn]
[10m] Manetho’s History of Egypt begins its list of Egyptian kings after the flood with this figure, who is often identified with Narmer. This First Dynasty ruler is traditionally credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
ANSWER: Menes [or Mineus; accept mnj or manij]
[10e] A few fragments attest to a Manetho work of criticism directed at this other historian. This historian discussed Egypt in a work mostly about the Greco-Persian War, his Histories.
ANSWER: Herodotus [or Hēródotos]
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