But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity --nay, you may call it an ocean-wide renown; not only was he famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name; had as much a name indeed as
Cambyses or Caesar.
This honor is, however, more properly attributable to
Cambyses, the son of Cyrus.
Many of the sources he uses are late, and the Egyptian sources on
Cambyses are particularly unreliable (100-101).
org It is the site of the Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC, where Emperor
Cambyses II of Persia invaded Egypt.
In the ancient world an extraordinary range of individuals were curious to locate the source, such as Alexander the Great and Herodotus from Greece, Cyrus and
Cambyses from Persia, Julius Caesar and Nero from Rome.
According to Herodotus, the invasion of Ethiopia by the Persian king
Cambyses was exploratory in nature (Hdt.
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).
first century CE), and the Coptic
Cambyses Romance (dated palaeographically to the late sixth or seventh century CE).
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.
King
Cambyses a judge issued a warrant for bribery had been killed by skinning [12].
For not longe after the deathe of Cyrus above the space of one yeare lyved
Cambyses, neither lefte he any heire of hys kyngdome'.
Zerubbabel and Joshua hold commissions under Cyrus's successors
Cambyses (530/529-522 B.
