 At the beginning of the New Kingdom (c. 1550 BCE), the city became known as "mn-nfr" (anglicized as Men-nefer, meaning "enduring and beautiful"), which became "Memfi" () in Bohairic Coptic.The name "Memphis" () is the Greek adaptation of this name, which was originally the name of the pyramid of Pepi I, located west of the city.However, Greek poet Hesiod in his "Theogony" says that Memphis was a daughter of river god Nilus and the wife of Epaphus (the son of Zeus and Io), who founded the city and named it after his wife.