Cambyses

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Zayna van der Zijl

Cards (35)

xenophon cyropedia 
"for what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be"
reign time of cambyses
530 - 522 Bc
how did egyptians view him ?
a cruel tyrant
eye doctor theory 
international diplomacy, encourages marriage, enraged attacks
Revenge for mother theory
mother replaced, cyrus marries egyptian, mother feels insulted
cambyses is an egyptian theory
egyptians claimed he was egyptian, claiming birth right
all theories have in common
cambyses personal reaction
amasis (pharoh) old ally 
croesus
who helped persians 
phoenecians, samos and cyprus
samos tyrant 
Polycrates
polycrates allied with 
eygpt and then switched
new pharoh 
psammetichus
HDT 3.34 better than cyrus
"he was better than his father, because he kept all of cyrus' possesions and aquired eygpt and the command of the sea into the bargain"
HDT 3.40 wheel of fortune
"I have never yet heard of a man who after an unbroken run of luck was not finally brought to ruin"
when did he invade egypt
525 BC
phanes 
amasis close advisor
he also took 
ammonians and nubians
HDT 27 ruthless 
"that the men were liars, and as such he had them executed"
HDT 175 ruthless inhumane
"ten days passed, and cambyses wishing to see what stuf the egyptian king was made of"
HDT 29 INTOLERANT 
"do you call that a god you poor creatures"
HDT 3.35 MAD 
"there's proof for you prexaspes, taht i am sane and the persians mad"
posener tolerant, identity
"Mesuti-Re son of re, cambyses"
serapeum 
temple of egyptian god serapis
dichotomy 
polar opposite
HDT 3.37 
"entered the temple of Hephaestus and jeered"
HDT 3.39 RUTHLESS 
"he killed the former and banned the latter"
who kills cambyses brother smerdis
prexaspes
apis bull which god 
ptah
cambyses died in 
552 bc
patizeithes 
wants to run persia
patizeithes brother pretends to be
smerdis
how does cambyses die (karma)
gets on horse and stabs his thigh
darius 
a usserper to throne
rebbellions for daruis ?
2 years of rebbellions
smerdis names 
bardia, mardus