Name and identity The commonly-used name Menes derives from Manetho, an Egyptian historian and priest who lived during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.Manetho noted the name in Greek as Μήνης (transliterated: Mênês).An alternative Greek form, Μιν (transliterated: Min), was cited by the fifth-century-BC historian Herodotus, but this variant is no longer accepted; it appears to have been …

Menes, also spelled Mena, Meni, or Min, (flourished c. 2925 bce), legendary first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and established ancient Egypt’s 1st dynasty. Manetho, a 3rd-century-bce Egyptian historian, called him Menes, the 5th-century-bce Greek historian Herodotus referred to him as Min, and …

2016年1月29日 · Menes (c. 3150 BCE) is the legendary first king of Egypt who is thought to have united Upper and Lower Egypt through conquest and founded both the First Dynasty and the great city of Memphis. His name is known from sources such as Manetho's Chronology (3rd century BCE), The Turin King List, and the Palermo Stone as well as from some scant ...

2014年10月14日 · Menes. Menes (3100 B.C.E. – 3000 B.C.E.) also known as Aha and as Scorpion, was an Egyptian pharaoh of the first dynasty—to some historians the founder of this dynasty, to others the second. It is estimated that from the time of Menes until Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, there were 330 "successive kings on the throne of Horus," that ...

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2017年3月7日 · In Egyptian legend, the first king of Egypt was Menes. At least, Menes is the form of the king's name that was used by the 3rd century B.C. historian Manetho. Two other first dynasty kings' names are associated with Menes, Narmer (as in the Narmer Palette) and Aha. The Greek historian Herodotus calls Menes Min.

2021年1月28日 · Menes was the mighty ruler who according to legend united Upper and Lower Egypt during the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt. Owing to this, he is generally regarded by classical tradition as the founder of ancient Egypt’s First Dynasty (also known as …