Cambyses

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Cambyses

Cambyses (kămbīˈsēz), two kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. Cambyses I was king (c.600 B.C.) of Ansham, ruling as a vassal of Media. According to Herodotus he married the daughter of the Median king Astyages; some scholars dispute this. Cambyses' son was Cyrus the Great. Cambyses II, d. 521 B.C., was the son and successor of Cyrus the Great and ruled as king of ancient Persia (529–521 B.C.). He disposed of his brother Smerdis in order to gain unchallenged rule. He invaded Egypt, defeating (525 B.C.) Psamtik at Pelusium and sacking Memphis. His further plans of conquest in Africa were frustrated, and at home an impostor claiming to be Smerdis raised a revolt. Cambyses died, possibly by suicide, when he was putting down the insurrection. Darius I succeeded him.

Cambyses

had a venal judge put to death and the body skinned as covering for his judgment seat. [Gk. Hist.: Herodotus in Magill III, 479]

See: Punishment

Cambyses

died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529--522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great

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Xenophon and Plato in Elizabethan Culture: The Tyrant's Fear Before Macbeth

(23) Here we might think of Dame Chat and Scapethrift from Gammer Gurton's Needle; of Ambidexter, the Vice, from Cambyses; and of such figures as Master Lust, Inclination, Greedy-Gut, and Trust in The Trial of Treasure.

Wordplay in Earliest Shakespeare

Indeed 'Cambyses vein' was familiar enough to a playhouse audience to be alluded to in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV in the late 1590s." (27) As late as 1609 Thomas Dekker cited the play when addressing "How a Gallant should behave him selfe in a Play-house": "on the very Rushes where the Commedy is to daunce, yea and under the state of Cambises himselfe must our fethered Estridge [ostrich] like a peece of Ordnance be planted valiantly." (28) The play's modern editor asks, "Does not this reference suggest that Cambises was sharing the stage with Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Dekker?" (29)

"Accidental Judgments" and "Casual Slaughters" in Hamlet: Horatio's Eyewitness Account

According to Herodotus, the invasion of Ethiopia by the Persian king Cambyses was exploratory in nature (Hdt.

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The Sesostrises, Assurbanipal and the Cambyses were the crowned representatives of the bank and monopolies of the time, as were Dupleix and Clive in India in the last century, and as are, in our century, the powers divvying up Africa" (Reclus, 1905a, page 488).

Anarchism, geohistory, and the Annales: rethinking Elisee Reclus's influence on Lucien Febvre

When King Psammenitus of Egypt is conquered by Cambyses, he weeps not at the murder of his son or the enslavement of his daughters but at the ruin of one of his advisers who "has lost all and become a beggar when he is upon the threshold of old age" (3.14).

The over determined universe: the paradox of freedom in Herodotus's history

King Cambyses a judge issued a warrant for bribery had been killed by skinning [12].

Investigating the death penalty from the perspective of jurisprudence and law

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