CAMBYSES

kămbīˈsēz, two kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. Cambyses I was king (c.600 b.c.) of Ansham, ruling as a vassal of Media. According to Herodotus he married the daughter of the Median king Astyages; some scholars dispute this. Cambyses' son was Cyrus the Great. Cambyses II, d. 521 b.c., was the son and successor of Cyrus the Great and ruled as king of ancient Persia (529–521 b.c.). He disposed of his brother Smerdis in order to gain unchallenged rule. He invaded Egypt, defeating (525 b.c.) Psamtik at Pelusium and sacking Memphis. His further plans of conquest in Africa were frustrated, and at home an impostor claiming to be Smerdis raised a revolt. Cambyses died, possibly by suicide, when he was putting down the insurrection. Darius I succeeded him.

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Authority and Archaeology, Sacred and Profane: Essays on the Relation of Monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature
Book by S. R. Driver, Ernest A. Gardner, F. Ll. Griffith, F. Haverfield, A. C. Headlam, D. G. Hogarth; J. Murray, 1899
Subjects: Archaeology, Bible--Antiquities
...great Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar. Of Cambyses there is little to say apart from...before I became king. One named Cambyses, son of Cyrus, of our race, he...the dominion before me, and this Cambyses had a brother named Bardiya, of...
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Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 B.C
Book by Maria Brosius; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Achaemenid Dynasty--559-330 B.C, Iran--Civilization--To 640, Iran--Kings And Rulers, Women In Politics--Iran--History, Women--Iran--History, Women--Iran--Social Conditions, Women--Iran--Social Life And Customs
...totally unacceptable. In this context Cambyses marriage could only have been perceived...that recounted by Ctesias. The story of Cambyses murder of his sister is the third in...which should perhaps be connected with Cambyses political measures to limit the income...
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Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
Book by Jon Hesk; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Deception--Greece--Athens, Democracy--Greece--Athens
...resorts to the very deceptive devices which Cambyses insists should only be used against ones...as a rejection of, or departure from Cambyses lesson is to assume that the lesson itself...dis)encourages. On the surface, Cambyses could not be clearer in dis(en)couraging...
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Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Book by Jasper Griffin, Hugh Lloyd-Jones; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Greek Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Sophocles--Criticism And Interpretation
Cambyses. 47 He tells us nothing about this king...problems to an invader. His account of Cambyses is thus a catalogue of failure and crime...serious deterioration is observable when Cambyses moves to Sais the capital of the last...
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Modern Studies in English Renaissance Drama
Book by Max Bluestone, Norman Rabkin; Prentice-Hall, 1961
Subjects: English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600
...which cannot ae traced to Erasmus is "Of Cambyses." The account of the Persian king here...one considers what Taverner does with Cambyses, one can well understand how Preston...relation." Thus he begins his section "Of Cambyses" with the story of the unjust judge...
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journal articles on: Cambyses  - 38 results

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Representing Justice: from Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-first-century Courthouses1
Journal article by Judith Resnik, Dennis E. Curtis; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 151, 2007
Subjects: European history, Justice, Magazines, Symbols
...them, consider first the myth of Cambyses, a story that was translated with...525 years before the Common Era King Cambyses ruled Persia and ordered a corrupt judge, Sisamnes, flayed alive. Cambyses then appointed Otanes, who was the...
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On Torture and the Achaemenids
Journal article by Michael Kozuh; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
Subjects: Lincoln, Bruce--Criticism and interpretation, Persian Empire, 559-330 BC--Analysis, Torture--Analysis, Torture--History
...kings of the Achaemenid empire (Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius), contains a troubling...problem of the ethnicity of Cyrus and Cambyses. This is by no means an easy issue...read motives into the deeds of Cyrus and Cambyses, yet can we attribute Mazdaean thought...
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Boyle's Guzman at Lincoln's Inn Fields 1669
Journal article by Tim Keenan; Theatre Notebook, Vol. 60, 2006
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Guzman (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Restoration age literature--Criticism and interpretation, Theater companies--Services
...The Forcd Marriage (1670), and Cambyses (1671) (scenic demand in Elvira is...argues that Act 4.1 of Elkanah Settles Cambyses (LIF 1671) indicates a successive backshutter...diss., Yale, 1955, 341-2). Cambyses is the most technically demanding of...
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The House of the God Who Dwells in Jerusalem
Journal article by Lisbeth S. Fried; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Priester und Leviten im Achamenidischen Juda (Book)--Book reviews, Temple Restoration in Early Achaemenid Judah (Book)--Book reviews
...Udjahoressnet Inscription, in which Cambyses and Darius are said to have prostrated...borders of the empire (p. 151). Until Cambyses conquest of Egypt, the threat of Egyptian...temples resources whenever they wanted. Cambyses ordered the temple of Inanna in Uruk...
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The Tragedy of Law: Gyges in Herodotus and Plato
Journal article by Michael Davis; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Justice (Philosophy)--Analysis, Law--Philosophy, Metaphysics--Analysis, Plato--Philosophy, Republic (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...subsequent rape of his daughter,(26) Cambyses love of his sister,(27) Aristons...a new outside. He is like Cyrus son Cambyses, who, when accused of madness, thinks...by opening up the chest of his son. Cambyses treats the inside and the outside as...
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Anastasia: the Myth of the Miraculous Survival
Magazine article by Tim Callahan; Skeptic, Vol. 6, 1998
...was Bardiya, son of Cyrus the Great and brother of Cambyses. Cambyses succeeded Cyrus as ruler of the Persian Empire in...in that Bardiya might well have taken the throne in Cambyses absence. As it was, when Cambyses died on his way...
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Death & Politics
Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2007
Subjects: Burial laws--Analysis, Cemeteries--Facility closures, Death--Analysis, Mourning customs--Analysis, Politics--Analysis, San Francisco, California--Domestic policy, San Francisco, California--History
...discounting of funerals. But Herodotus also describes the Persian leader Cambyses violation of tombs during the conquest of Egypt--and offers it as evidence that Cambyses was insane: Forms vary from culture to culture, but not the respect that...
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A Community Built on Sand: A Century Ago, British Scientist WJ Harding-King Trekked across Egypt's Western Desert, a Section of the Sahara Sparsely Populated by Tribal Peoples. Today, the Region Is the Location of an Ambitious Government Programme to House the Country's Rocketing Population. Jack Shenker Follows in Harding-King's Footsteps to Discover How the Desert Is Coping with This Modern Influx
Magazine article by Jack Shenker; Geographical, Vol. 82, October 2010
Subjects: Deserts--Environmental aspects, Deserts--Social aspects, Dwellings--Location, Dwellings--Planning, Dwellings--Social aspects, Housing--Location, Housing--Planning, Housing--Social aspects, Travel--Egypt, Travel--Personal narratives
...where the ancient god of chaos, Seth, was sent into exile, and where 50,000 hardened soldiers of the Persian pharaoh Cambyses were swallowed up en masse by a sandstorm--is being slowly turned, house by house, road by road, city by city, into...
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Re-running Marathon
Magazine article by Barry Baldwin; History Today, Vol. 48, May 1998
Subjects: Civilization, Greek--Influence, Marathon, Battle of, 490 B.C.--History
...of the Greek agora; but it may also reflect a kings suspicion of incipient democracy. The short reign (530-522 BC) of Cambyses was mainly concentrated on the Persian conquest of Egypt, but when Cyprus and Phoenician states submitted to him the Persians...
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The West's First Stand: Marathon: At the Dawn of What Was to Become Western Civilization, the Athenians Won an Amazing Victory over the Persians at Marathon
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 23, April 2, 2007
Subjects: Marathon running--Competitions, Marathons--Competitions, Marathons--History
...Greek world that lay across the Aegean Sea from Athens on the peninsula of Asia Minor. His son and successor, the monstrous Cambyses, had annexed Egypt. The emperor Darius had conquered the northern Greek territories of Thrace and Macedonia two years before...
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It's a Long Bloody Road BACK TO BENGHAZI; Tobruk, Derna, Benghazi - the Familiar Places of WWII's Libya Campaign Are Suddenly Back on the Generals' Maps. but as an Eminent Historian Explains
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 27, 2011
Subjects: Fighter planes, Generals, Historians, Qaddafi, Muammar al-
...little cover. Here, a defensive position can always be outflanked. It was here, after all, that the great Persian king Cambyses II lost an entire army 2,500 years ago. Nor is it any coincidence that, since ancient times, Libya has been divided between...
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Hunt for Zerzura and WWII
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 1, 2003
...winning film of the same name. Many of the characters from which Mr. Ondaatje worked for his desert scenes are here from Cambyses army of 50,000 lost in the desert without trace around 525 B.C. to Herodotus, commenting on the harsh desert conditions...
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Danes Called King Eric 11 "The Memorable" .. but Everyone's Forgotten Why
Newspaper article by Anton Antonowicz; The Mirror (London, England), November 8, 1996
...Titan ... which sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The Egyptians worshipped cats, so when Persian king Cambyses bombarded their ancient capital of Memphis with dead moggies they surrendered immediately. In Thailand in 1985, a builder...
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Great Place to Invade; Alexander? the Film May Be Awful, but the Location Is
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 8, 2005
...Alexandria, its a days escapewintersun drive to Siwa, where Alexander met the Oracle. Some 200 years prior to his journey, Cambyses, the King of Persia, had sent an army of 50,000 to burn the Oracle of Zeus. The army never made it, perishing in the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cambyses  - 13 results

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Cambyses
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAMBYSES kambi sez, two kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. Cambyses I was king (c.600 b.c.) of Ansham, ruling...Median king Astyages ; some scholars dispute this. Cambyses son was Cyrus the Great . Cambyses II, d. 521...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Persian ruler of about the same time, Cambyses I, was vassal to Cyaxares. According...from the start by dynastic troubles. Cambyses II, son of Cyrus, did away with Smerdis...to have unchallenged power, but when Cambyses was absent on a successful raid into...
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Smerdis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He is also called Bardiya. He was assassinated by his brother Cambyses II, who kept the murder a secret. Patizithes, the Magian custodian of Cambyses palace, deposed Cambyses (who was campaigning in Egypt), put forward his own brother...
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Cyrene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...notably Barca, but Cyrene retained power. In the late 6th cent. Cyrene submitted to the Persians under Cambyses II (see under Cambyses ), but later (after 480 b.c.) became independent again. Although the city became subject to Alexander...
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Darius I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...also Dariavaush and Darius Hystaspis (after his father, Hystaspes or Vishtaspa). A distant cousin of Cambyses II (see under Cambyses ), he succeeded to the throne after the fall of the impostor claiming to be Smerdis . The first years of...
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