Sesostris

Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · §108–114

Life events

• Sesostris set out with warships and subdued peoples along the Erythraian Sea.(Book 2 · §100–107 · 📍 Arabian gulf)
  • “He (the priests said) first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea”
• Sesostris marched across the continent and subdued nations, marking his victories with pillars.(Book 2 · §100–107)
  • “then secondly, after he had returned to Egypt, according to the report of the priests he took a great army and marched over the continent, subduing every nation which stood in his way”
• Sesostris crossed from Asia into Europe and subdued the Scythians and Thracians.(Book 2 · §100–107 · 📍 Europe)
  • “Thus doing he traversed the continent, until at last he passed over to Europe from Asia and subdued the Scythians and also the Thracians.”
• Sesostris’s brother set fire to the house where he and his sons had been invited to a feast.(Book 2 · §100–107 · 📍 Daphnai)
  • “his brother to whom Sesostris had entrusted the charge of Egypt invited him and with him his sons to a feast; and then he piled the house round with brushwood and set it on fire”
• Two of Sesostris’s sons were burned to death as the others escaped the fire.(Book 2 · §100–107 · 📍 Daphnai)
  • “This, they said, Sesostris did, and two of his sons were burnt to death in this manner, but the rest got away safe with their father.”
• Sesostris took vengeance on his brother.(Book 2 · §108–114 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “Then Sesostris, having returned to Egypt and having taken vengeance on his brother,”
• Sesostris compelled the people of lands he had subdued to build and dig in Egypt.(Book 2 · §108–114 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “these were they who drew the stones which in the reign of this king were brought to the temple of Hephaistos, being of very great size; and also these were compelled to dig all the channels which now are in Egypt;”
• Sesostris distributed equal portions of land to Egyptians and appointed annual rent.(Book 2 · §108–114 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “they said that this king distributed the land to all the Egyptians, giving an equal square portion to each man, and from this he made his revenue, having appointed them to pay a certain rent every year:”
• A priest refused Dareios permission to set up a statue beside Sesostris's, and Dareios accepted the refusal.(Book 2 · §108–114 · 📍 the temple of Hephaistos)
  • With: Dareios
  • “the priest of Hephaistos refused to permit Dareios the Persian to set up a statue of himself in front of them, saying that deeds had not been done by him equal to those which were done by Sesostris the Egyptian;”

Book 2 · §108–114

• child: Pheros “Now after Sesostris had brought his life to an end, his son Pheros, they told me, received in succession the kingdom”
• rivals with Dareios “for Sesostris had subdued other nations besides, not fewer than he, and also the Scythians; but Dareios had not been able to conquer the Scythians”

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