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The Serpent and the Satrap, The Rebellion of Inaros and the Egyptian War Against Persia
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- ISBN8233587795
- EAN9798233587795
- Date de parution11/07/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
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The Serpent and the Satrap, The Rebellion of Inaros and the Egyptian War Against Persia In 460 BCE, a Libyan frontier chieftain did what no Egyptian rebel had managed in seventy years of Persian occupation: he convinced the naval empire of Athens to go to war on his behalf. The Serpent and the Satrap tells the story of Inaros II, a man who fused tribal warlord authority with the borrowed glory of Egypt's fallen Saite pharaohs, killed a Persian satrap in battle, and for six years ruled Lower Egypt as Achaemenid Persia's most dangerous enemy.
It is also the story of how that rebellion collapsed, through a four-year siege, a diverted river, and a betrayal at the Persian court so severe it drove the empire's own general into rebellion against his king. Drawing on Herodotus, Thucydides, and the court physician Ctesias, alongside Demotic papyri unearthed in a Western Desert oasis, this book reconstructs a war that reshaped the ancient Mediterranean: it hardened Athens's alliance into an empire, exposed the limits of Persian succession politics, and left behind a folk hero so enduring that Egyptians were still telling his story a thousand years later.
Meticulously researched and vividly told, this is narrative history at its most gripping, a forgotten war whose consequences echoed for centuries.
It is also the story of how that rebellion collapsed, through a four-year siege, a diverted river, and a betrayal at the Persian court so severe it drove the empire's own general into rebellion against his king. Drawing on Herodotus, Thucydides, and the court physician Ctesias, alongside Demotic papyri unearthed in a Western Desert oasis, this book reconstructs a war that reshaped the ancient Mediterranean: it hardened Athens's alliance into an empire, exposed the limits of Persian succession politics, and left behind a folk hero so enduring that Egyptians were still telling his story a thousand years later.
Meticulously researched and vividly told, this is narrative history at its most gripping, a forgotten war whose consequences echoed for centuries.
