For 10 points, name this great historian who divided Egyptian pharaohs into 30 dynasties.
This man's no-longer extant writings include works entitled On the Preparation of Kyphi, On Festivals, and Digest of Physics which discussed the symbolism of various animals. His writing is often grouped with his contemporary Berossos, as in a recent translation by Verbrugghe and Wickersham. His hometown is well attested as Sebennytos and he bore a name translating as "keeper of the horses." The first external reference to him comes in Josephus' work Against Apion, and he probably served as a priest at the temple of Onuris-Shu in the 3rd-century BC. His best-known work describes the origin of the Hyksos and says that Menes ruled for 62 years before being eaten by a hippo. For 10 points, name this great historian who divided Egyptian pharaohs into 30 dynasties.
This man's no-longer extant writings include works entitled On the Preparation of Kyphi, On Festivals, and Digest of Physics which discussed the symbolism of various animals.
Manetho (or Manethon)