Cheops
Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · §122–129
Life events
- Cheops became king and brought the Egyptians to every kind of evil.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- “after him Cheops became king over them and brought them to every kind of evil”
- Cheops closed the temples, stopped sacrifices, and ordered the Egyptians to work for him.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- “for he shut up all the temples, and having first kept them from sacrificing there, he then bade all the Egyptians work for him.”
- Cheops had a causeway built by forced labor to transport stones for his pyramid.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- “Of this oppression there passed ten years while the causeway was made by which they drew the stones”
- Cheops's pyramid was built.(Book 2 · §122–129)
- “For the making of the pyramid itself there passed a period of twenty years”
- Cheops made his daughter solicit money from visitors and she used the stones they gave her to build a pyramid.(Book 2 · §122–129)
- “being in want of money he caused his own daughter to sit in the stews, and ordered her to obtain from those who came a certain amount of money”
- Chephren succeeded his brother Cheops as king.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- With: Chephren
- “after he was dead his brother Chephren succeeded to the kingdom.”
- Mykerinos, son of Cheops, became king.(Book 2 · §122–129 · 📍 Egypt)
- With: Mykerinos
- “After him, they said, Mykerinos became king over Egypt, who was the son of Cheops”
Book 2 · §122–129
- siblings with Chephren “And after he was dead his brother Chephren succeeded to the kingdom.”
- with Chephren (Chephren succeeded Cheops as king.) “And after he was dead his brother Chephren succeeded to the kingdom.”
- child: Mykerinos “After him, they said, Mykerinos became king over Egypt, who was the son of Cheops;”
- with Rhampsinitos (Cheops succeeded Rhampsinitos as king.) “Down to the time when Rhampsinitos was king, they told me there was in Egypt nothing but orderly rule, and Egypt prospered greatly; but after him Cheops became king over them”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.