The Pharaohs And Their People Scenes of Old Egyptian Life And History
The Pharaohs And Their People Scenes of Old Egyptian Life And History
E Berkley
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Banished by the jealousy of his rivals, Psam- metichus 2 determined on a new and energetic 1 And thus a descendant of Tafnekht, the ambitious prince of Sais, defeated by Piankhi (p. 246). 1 The story told by Herodotus is that an oracle had declared that that prince who should make libation out of a brazen goblet should reign over all Egypt. One day all the princes appeared to offer 264 PSAMMETICHUS EXPELS ASSYRIANS. policy. He formed an alliance with the king of Lydia, and obtained the assistan...ce of a large number of Greek mercenaries chiefly Carians and lonians by birth. He resolved, by their aid, to win back the independence of Egypt by driving out the Assyrians, and to reunite the divided land, by bringing it all under his own sceptre. At Momemphis he defeated the Assyrians in a great battle, and they left Egypt to return no more. Assur-bani-pal, who had conquered Egypt and devastated Thebes, was still reigning at Nineveh ; and it must have been not a little humiliating to his pride, to be unable to make another attempt to regain what he had lost.
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