Psammetichos
Family: Egyptian · Role: king of Egypt · First appears: Book 2 · §150–156
Life events
- Two hundred and forty thousand Egyptian warriors revolted and went over to the Ethiopians.(Book 2 · §26–31 · 📍 Elephantine)
- With: Egyptians
- “accordingly they took counsel together, and adopting a common plan they all in a body revolted from Psammetichos and set out for Ethiopia.”
- Psammetichos fled to Syria to escape Sabacos.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Syria)
- With: Sabacos
- “from him, I say, he had then been a fugitive in Syria”
- The Egyptians of Saïs brought Psammetichos back to his country.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Saïs)
- “the Egyptians who were of the district of Saïs brought him back to his own country.”
- The eleven kings stripped Psammetichos of almost all his power and drove him into the fen-country.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 the fen-country)
- “they determined to strip him of almost all his power and to drive him away into the fen-country”
- Psammetichos received an oracle that vengeance would come when bronze men appeared from the sea.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 the city of Buto)
- With foreign mercenaries and Egyptian supporters, Psammetichos overthrew the kings and gained power over Egypt.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Egypt)
- “Then when he had persuaded them, with the help of those Egyptians who favoured his cause and of these foreign mercenaries he overthrew the kings.”
- Psammetichos granted the Ionians and Carians land and paid them what he had promised.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Egypt)
- “These portions of land he gave them, and he paid them besides all that he had promised”
- Psammetichos placed Egyptian boys with the Ionians and Carians to learn the Hellenic tongue.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Egypt)
- “moreover he placed with them Egyptian boys to have them taught the Hellenic tongue”
- Psammetichos besieged Azotos and eventually took it.(Book 2 · §158–165 · 📍 Azotos)
- “besieging it, until at last he took it”
Book 2 · §150–156
- parent: Necos (father of Psammetichos) “This Psammetichos had formerly been a fugitive from the Ethiopian Sabacos who had killed his father Necos”
- with Sabacos (Psammetichos fled from Sabacos.) “This Psammetichos had formerly been a fugitive from the Ethiopian Sabacos who had killed his father Necos, from him, I say, he had then been a fugitive in Syria;”
Book 2 · §158–165
- child: Necos (son of Psammetichos) “The son of Psammetichos was Necos, and he became king of Egypt.”
Book 7 · §1–7
- with Inaros (Psammetichos is Inaros's father.) “Inaros the son of Psammetichos”
- child: Inaros “Inaros the son of Psammetichos”
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