This historian's labelling of a people as "shepherd-kings" was referenced in a debate over the origins of the Jews found in another writer's tract Against Apion.
This historian's labelling of a people as "shepherd-kings" was referenced in a debate over the origins of the Jews found in another writer's tract Against Apion. The accounts created by this historian, which are largely corroborated by the Turin Canon, include a description of the wicked tyrant Ochthois being devoured by an animal in Heracleopolis. A chronology created by this historian is interrupted after the Saite Renaissance by a line that includes Bardiya, who hailed from (*) Persia. This writer's works were the main source used by Flinders Petrie to date his findings, and were the most important such source until the discoveries of Jean François Champollion. His history begins with Menes and proceeds through thirty-one dynasties, the last native one ending with Nectanebo II. For 10 points, name this author of the Aegyptiaca, a priest who chronicled the pharaohs.
This historian's labelling of a people as "shepherd-kings" was referenced in a debate over the origins of the Jews found in another writer's tract Against Apion.
Manetho [or Manethon; or Manethos] 