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Amasis and former
In 570 BC the Pharaoh Apries ( Wahibre, reigned 589-570 BC ) led the descendants of this mercenary army made up of 30, 000 Carians and Ionians against a former general turned rebel by the name of Amasis.

Amasis and general
* Amasis ( Persian general ), Achaemenid military commander in Egypt in ca.
At this time of crisis, the Egyptians turned in support towards a victorious general, Amasis II who had led Egyptian forces in a highly successful invasion of Nubia in 592 BC under pharaoh Psamtik II, Apries ' father.

Amasis and who
General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated.
One such figure was Phanes of Halicarnassus, who would later on leave Amasis, for reasons Herodotus does not clearly know but suspects were personal between the two figures.
Herodotus who visited Egypt less than a century after Amasis II's death writes that:
However, Amasis was later faced with a more formidable enemy with the rise of Persia under Cyrus who ascended to the throne in 559 B. C. E.
Cambyses wants to marry a daughter of Amasis, who sends him a daughter of Apries instead of his own daughter, and by her Cambyses is induced to begin the war.
Many scholars consider the finest work in the style to belong Exekias and the Amasis Painter, who are noted for their feeling for composition and narrative.
According to Strabo the Greek name Ἀμάσεια comes from Amasis, the queen of the Amazons, who were said to have lived here.
The story takes place in Ancient Egypt where Princess Amasidia, daughter to King Amasis, is walking along the Pelusium Way in the company of Old Mambres, who the king appointed to be in charge of her household.
Mambres knowing that the bull was the princess's love had to keep it a secret because that man was Nabuchad the one who had dethroned Amasis 7 years prior.

Amasis and had
Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before.
The war took place in 525 BCE, when Amasis II had just been succeeded by his son Psamtik III.
King Amasis had hoped that Egypt would be able to withstand the threatened Persian attack by an alliance with the Greeks.
Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia, and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC.
According to Herodotus, he had a son named Amasis and a wife and daughter, both unnamed in historical documents.

Amasis and declared
Amasis quickly declared himself pharaoh in 570 BC and Apries fled Egypt and sought refuge in another foreign country.

Amasis and pharaoh
Amasis II () or Ahmose II was a pharaoh ( 570 B. C. E.
* 567 BC — Former pharaoh Apries invades Egypt with Babylonian help but is defeated by Saite pharaoh Amasis II ( also known as Ahmose II ).
: See Amasis II for the 26th Dynasty pharaoh whose name sometimes appears as Ahmose II.
He then allied with Amasis II, pharaoh of Egypt, as well as the tyrant of Naxos Lygdamis.
* Amasis II ( or Ahmose II ), ( reigned c. 570 BC-c. 526 BC ), pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt
Plato also notes the city as the birthplace of the pharaoh Amasis II.
Psamtik III was the son of the pharaoh Amasis II and one of his wives, Queen Tentkheta.
He succeeded his father as pharaoh in 526 BC, when Amasis died after a long and prosperous reign of some 44 years.

Amasis and also
Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.
Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.
Herodotus also relates the desecration of Ahmose II / Amasis ' mummy when the Persian king Cambyses conquered Egypt and thus ended the 26th Saite dynasty:
The Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon defines ' philhellen ' as " fond of the Hellenes, mostly of foreign princes, as Amasis ; of Parthian kings [...]; also of Hellenic tyrants, as Jason of Pherae and generally of Hellenic ( Greek ) patriots.
The remains of a chapel of Osiris, erected by Amasis II of the twenty-sixth, also were found near the northern temple.

Amasis and married
Amasis then married Chedebnitjerbone II, one of the daughters of his predecessor Apries, in order to legitimise his kingship.

Amasis and Apries
An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis ( c. 567 B. C. E .).
Nebuchadnezzar successfully fought the Pharaohs Psammetichus II and Apries throughout his reign, and during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis in 568 BC it is rumoured that he may have briefly invaded Egypt itself.
* 570 BC — Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt.
When Apries marched back to Egypt in 567 BC with the aid of a Babylonian army to reclaim the throne of Egypt, he was likely killed in battle with Amasis ' forces.
Amasis, however, reportedly treated Apries ' mortal remains with respect and observed the proper funerary rituals by having Apries ' body carried to Sais and buried there with " full military honours.
Beghé, like Philae, was a holy island ; its and rocks are inscribed with the names and titles of Amenhotep III, Rameses the Great, Psammetichus, Apries, and Amasis, together with memorials of the later Macedonian and Roman rulers of Egypt.

Amasis and daughter
In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.
Cambyses complied and requested a daughter of Amasis for marriage.
Amasis was enraged again and sent 12 of his evilest men to gather his daughter.
Then Amasis went to kill his daughter as if he didn't he would be sentenced to hell.

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