10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAMBYSES»
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1
The Lost Army of
Cambyses
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa.
2
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
Cambyses, who sent his brother back to Persia. The anecdote is particularly
revealing of the relationship between the brothers. For the Persians, in fact, “the
chief proof of manliness” is “prowess in fighting” (I.136✧). The king himself
justified ...
In this way they did not violate the law through fear of Cambyses, nor perish for
upholding the law; instead, they introduced another law that allowed the king to
have his way. Cambyses, then, married the sister he loved, and before long mar-
...
Herodotus, Pamela Mensch, James Romm, 2014
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The History of Herodotus
AGAINST this Amasis, Cambyses the Son of Cyrus assembled ^n Army,
consisting of his own Subjects, and the Grecian Forces of the Ionians and
Æolians. The Cause of the War was this. Cambyses sent a Herald into Ægypt to
demand the ...
5
The Battle of Marathon in Scholarship: Research, Theories ...
Adding to his bizarre behavior, Herodotus tells us that Cambyses “went into the
sanctuary of the Kabeiroi, where no one other than the priest is allowed to enter
according to the laws ofGod and men. Here he subjected all the statues to a long
...
6
Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour Through the Wild Boars, ...
tion the murder in his history of Persia, for example, as we might expect him to—
though he does tell us that Cambyses' wife Roxanne (not Meroe in this story)
gave birth to a headless baby (FGH 688 F 13). (Ctesias' work survives only in ...
7
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in ...
Controlling Judges: A Fifteenth-Century Cambyses in the Town Hall of Bruges
The Judgment of Cambyses, depicted in figures 31 and 32 (color plates 10 and
113) provides a first example. The story comes f rom t he Historiae (The H istories
), ...
Judith Resnik, Dennis Edward Curtis, 2011
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The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid ...
She demanded that Cambyses hand over Sphendadates to her.' When he
refused, she cursed him, drank poison and died. (14) Cambyses made a sacrifice
, but the blood of the slaughtered victims did not flow, and he became anxious.
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
They agree, however, in the opinion, that he left to Cambyses the undisturbed
possession of that vast Empire to which he had attached the name of Persia.
According to the former Historian, before Cyrus set out on the expedition, in
which he ...
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
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The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the ...
This was precisely the criticism leveled at Cambyses. As we shall see, there must
have been an element of truth to Cambyses' bad reputation, though a fair amount
of it can probably be attributed to later legends forming at the time when the ...
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Knowing that the Egyptians worshipped cats as a symbol of the goddess Bastet, Cambyses II ordered his warriors to paint images of the cat ... «Ancient Origins, Jul 15»
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Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, added Egypt; thus it remained until overthrown by Alexander the Great. The second, the Sasanian Empire, ... «Gatestone Institute, Mar 15»
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He wrote a play while at university called Cambyses, King of Persia, which had successful performances in 1666 at a theatre in Lincoln's Inn ... «Dunstable Today, Feb 15»
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From east to west came the Hyksos, the Assyrian hordes, the Persian army of Cambyses, Alexander the Great with his mercenaries, Antiochus ... «Ahram Online, Feb 15»
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Unsurprisingly, characters and places such as Pasargadae, Euphrates, Tomyris, Delphi, Persepolis, Cambyses, Firdausi, Arbela and many ... «Scroll.in, Jan 15»
Inscription on Cairo tomb reveals grave belonged to Khentakawess III
From 525 BC for around a century, the Persians ruled Egypt after king Cambyses marched into the Egyptian capital, Memphis, toppling the ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
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Unsurprisingly, characters and places such as Pasargadae, Euphrates, Tomyris, Delphi, Persepolis, Cambyses, Firdausi, Arbela and many other resonant ones ... «Outlook, Dec 14»
Poor quality 2400-year-old casket has strange and amateurish …
From 525 BC for around a century, the Persians ruled Egypt after king Cambyses marched into the Egyptian capital, Memphis, toppling the ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
The Immortals: An Elite Army of the Persian Empire That Never Grew …
First, they were elemental when Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. They played a role in Cambyses II's conquest of Egypt in 525 ... «The Epoch Times, Nov 14»
This Day in Jewish History / Jews in ancient Egypt plead to rebuild …
In it, we learn that the Jews had “built this temple in the fortress of Yeb in the days of the kingdom of Egypt,” and that “when Cambyses came to ... «Haaretz, Nov 14»
