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What made "pharaohs"?
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Re: What made "pharaohs"?
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Manetho is not Menes
Rokcet Scientist wrote:Or was a pharaoh a king who was also a living god, while the non-pharaohs were 'just' kings, and thus mere mortals?kbs2244 wrote:So a “pharaoh” was a ruler of both upper and lower Egypt?
If so, what happened that made the people consider Menes/Manetho a pharaoh, a living god, while his predecessors apparently were not considered to be living gods?
Of course it could simply be spin, a.k.a. 'public relations': that Menes'/Manetho's Goebbels of the day thought it was a good idea to 'paint' the king as a living god...
Manetho was NOT Menes. Manetho was a historian during the reign of Ptolemy 1st.
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Re: What made "pharaohs"?
Yes - in the 3'd century BC. Roughly 2,700 years after Menes.
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