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Cambyses II and the Persian Conquest of Egypt (Achaemenid Persian Empire)
History with Cy
English - December 03, 2020 19:00 - 16 minutes - 12.1 MBCourses Education Society & Culture Places & Travel history ancient history medieval history world history country history ancient mesopotamia ancient greece ancient persia medieval europe ancient anatolia Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Cyrus the Great and the Birth of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
The Achaemenid king, Cambyses II of Persia, was the son and successor of Cyrus the Great. Though Cyrus is lauded by friend and foe alike as the ideal ruler, his son Cambyses in many written sources has been portrayed as just the opposite - a cruel, intolerant and unjust tyrant. But are these accusations true or simply the result of anti-Persian propaganda that was spread by some of their dissatisfied subject peoples, most notably in Egypt? Most of what we know about Cambyses II comes from his time in Egypt, which we'll take a look at here to see if we can determine just who the real Cambyses II of Persia was.
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