Megabuzus

Family: Persian · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

In Book 1, Section 4, Artaxerxes recalled Megabazus and sent Megabuzus, son of Zopyrus, to Egypt with a large army. “Arriving by land,” Megabuzus defeated the Egyptians and their allies and drove the Hellenes from Memphis.

At Prosopitis, after besieging the Hellenes for a year and six months, Megabuzus captured the island by diverting its canal and marching across the exposed ground. After six years of war, the Hellenic expedition ended in ruin and Egypt returned to the King’s subjection.

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Life events

• Megabuzus defeated the Egyptians and their allies and drove the Hellenes from Memphis.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Zopyrus
  • “Arriving by land he defeated the Egyptians and their allies in a battle, and drove the Hellenes out of Memphis”
• Megabuzus captured the island after besieging the Hellenes for a year and six months.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Prosopitis)
  • With: Zopyrus
  • “At last, draining the canal of its waters, which he diverted into another channel, he left their ships high and dry and joined most of the island to the mainland, and then marched over on foot and captured it.”
• The Hellenic expedition to Egypt ended in ruin, and Egypt returned to the King’s subjection.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Inaros Zopyrus
  • “Thus the enterprise of the Hellenes came to ruin after six years of war.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

• with Artaxerxes (The King sent Megabuzus with an army to Egypt.) “Finding that the matter made no progress, and that the money was only being wasted, he recalled Megabazus with the remainder of the money, and sent Megabuzus, son of Zopyrus, a Persian, with a large army to Egypt.”
• parent: Zopyrus “Finding that the matter made no progress, and that the money was only being wasted, he recalled Megabazus with the remainder of the money, and sent Megabuzus, son of Zopyrus, a Persian, with a large army to Egypt.”
• employer: Artaxerxes “Finding that the matter made no progress, and that the money was only being wasted, he recalled Megabazus with the remainder of the money, and sent Megabuzus, son of Zopyrus, a Persian, with a large army to Egypt.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.