Cheops
(Χέοψ), an early king of Egypt, godless and tyrannical, who, according to Herodotus and Diodorus, reigned for fifty years, and built the first and largest pyramid by the compulsory labour of his subjects. Diodorus calls him Chembes or Chemmis. His account agrees with that of Herodotus, except that he supposes seven generations to have intervened between Remphis or Rhampsinitus and Cheops. (Hdt. 2.124-127; Larcher, ad loc.; Diod. 1.63.) [Cephren.] [E.E]
(Χέοψ). The Greek form of the Egyptian Khufu, a king of Memphis in Egypt, of the Fourth Dynasty (cir. B.C. 3000), and famous as the builder of the largest of the pyramids by the forced labour of the people. He was succeeded by his brother Chephren (Khafra), who built the next largest pyramid. See Herod. ii. 124; and the article Aegyptus.
- the first pyramid-builder (at the modern Gizeh): Hdt. 2.124-127