Sethos

Family: Egyptian · Role: priest of Hephaistos and king · First appears: Book 2 · §139–143

Life events

Sethos, a priest of Hephaistos, came to the throne.(Book 2 · §139–143)
- “After him there came to the throne the priest of Hephaistos, whose name was Sethos.”
Sethos neglected the Egyptian warrior class and took away their granted farmland.(Book 2 · §139–143)
- “This man, they said, neglected and held in no regard the warrior class of the Egyptians, considering that he would have no need of them; and besides other slights which he put upon them, he also took from them the yokes of corn-land which had been given to them as a special gift in the reigns of the former kings”
The Egyptian warriors refused to come to Sethos’s rescue.(Book 2 · §139–143)
- “Then the warriors of the Egyptians refused to come to the rescue”
Mice ruined the invaders’ weapons, and the Arabians fled the next day, suffering heavy losses.(Book 2 · §139–143 · 📍 Pelusion)
- With: Sanacharib
- “Then after they came, there swarmed by night upon their enemies mice of the fields, and ate up their quivers and their bows, and moreover the handles of their shields, so that on the next day they fled, and being without defence of arms great numbers fell.”

with Hephaistos (Sethos was Hephaistos's priest.) “After him there came to the throne the priest of Hephaistos, whose name was Sethos.”
with Sanacharib (Sanacharib led an invasion against Sethos's Egypt.) “After this, Sanacharib king of the Arabians and of the Assyrians marched a great host against Egypt.”
enemies with Sanacharib (Sanacharib's invasion threatened Sethos.) “After this, Sanacharib king of the Arabians and of the Assyrians marched a great host against Egypt. Then the warriors of the Egyptians refused to come to the rescue, and the priest, being driven into a strait, entered into the sanctuary of the temple”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.