Mykerinos

Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · §122–129

Life events

Mykerinos, son of Cheops, became king.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- With: Cheops
- “After him, they said, Mykerinos became king over Egypt, who was the son of Cheops”
Mykerinos reopened the temples and freed the people to return to their work and sacrifices.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- “he both opened the temples and gave liberty to the people, who were ground down to the last extremity of evil, to return to their own business and to their sacrifices”
Mykerinos gave fairer decisions than the other kings and compensated people who complained of his judgments.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- “when a man complained of the decision, he gave him recompense from his own goods and thus satisfied his desire.”
Mykerinos's only daughter died.(Book 2 · §122–129)
- “calamities befell him, of which the first was this, namely that his daughter died, the only child whom he had in his house”
Mykerinos buried his dead daughter inside a gold-covered wooden cow.(Book 2 · §122–129)
- “he made a cow of wood, which he covered over with gold, and then within it he buried this daughter”

parent: Cheops “After him, they said, Mykerinos became king over Egypt, who was the son of Cheops;”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.