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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 Excerpt:...to the reader, that excepting the similarity between the names of Memnon and Agamemnon, there is not the fhadow of a foundation for it. But if etymology is to be had recourse to, we have no occafion to tranflate Agamemnon into Egypt: The name is applied to an extraordinary hero and to jupiter. In Greek we Hero of Troy; immortal, if applied to the God. This conjecture like the other proves nothing; it is not however without itspuse, NOTE. On the purport of the term Agamemnon, Bryant, p. 81.,. it may serve by an example to convince my reader that etymological proofs may always be brought on both sides. NVe are also told that Menestheus, Petes, and Menelaus, were Egyptian compounds. P The two first are mentioned in Diodorus, as of Egyptian extraction, and many of the Greeks, we are informed, did come from Egypt As for Menelaus, though Menes in Egypt gave his name to a Nome called Men-el-ai, yet it is very possible that Greece might call one of her heroes Menelaus; the fimilarity no more proves the non-existence of the hern than of the noine. Menelaus, is a Greek compound too, and I have as good a right to a Greek etymology as Mr. Bryant to an Egyptian one. Will Mr. Bryant deduce also Meneptolemus, Menedemus, Menecrates, Menecharmes, &e. all from the Egyptian god Menes? The argument therefore either proves nothing, or, what is of no higherss logical value, it proves too much. Anotheridifficulty, which with Mr. Bryant is conclufive against the story, is, that all the heroes who are enumerated in the cata was evidently a native of Egypt," &e. He adds, however, that he obtained the sovereignty of Athens. " Diodorus, says Mr. Bryant, " is certainly in the right 3 for Petes is an Egyptian word, right? The names of William the conqueror and all...