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Cambyses (Kambūgija of Cuneiform Documents)

CAMBISE (KAMBUGIJA DEI DOCUMENTI CUNEIFORMI)

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Also known as: German: Kambyses; Cambyses II; Spanish: Cambises; French: Cambyse; Italian: Kambūjiya

CAMBYSES (Kambūgija of Cuneiform Documents). - Name of two Achaemenid kings (v.). Of the first we know nothing else except that he was the father of Cyrus the Great (v.) and king of Anshan in Susiana until 558 B.C.

The second was the son and successor of Cyrus on the Persian throne (529-22). Having had his brother Bardiya (the Smerdis of the Greek writers) put to death, he led an expedition against Egypt, which he easily conquered thanks to the treachery of the Greek mercenaries, who went over from Egypt's pay to his. The attempts to occupy Carthaginian Libya and Ethiopia, however, proved vain. Having meanwhile learned from Egypt that Gaumata, passing himself off as Smerdis, had had himself proclaimed king, he set out again for Persia; but he was assassinated on the way or, according to Herodotus, died by a chance accident.

His policy toward the Egyptians was at first tolerant, but later, after the failure of the two aforementioned expeditions, it became cruel and irreverent toward their religion.

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BIBL.: Herodotus, II, 1 ff.; III, 1 ff.; The Cambridge ancient history, IV, Cambridge 1926, pp. 15-25; G. Ricciotti, Storia d'Israele, II, 3rd ed., Turin 1938, nos. 10-12.

Gaetano M. Perrella

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 425.

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Perrella, Gaetano Maria. “Cambise (Kambugija dei Documenti Cuneiformi).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 425. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cambise-kambugija-dei-documenti-cuneiformi.

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Perrella, Gaetano Maria. “Cambise (Kambugija dei Documenti Cuneiformi).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 425. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cambise-kambugija-dei-documenti-cuneiformi.

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  author    = {Perrella, Gaetano Maria},
  title     = {Cambise (Kambugija dei Documenti Cuneiformi)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {425},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cambise-kambugija-dei-documenti-cuneiformi}
}

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