Julian Degen. “Deportationen zur Zeit der ersten persischen Eroberung Ägyptens. Kambyses’ Sicherungspolitik im Lichte hellenischer und achaimenidischer Quellen”

The contribution discusses Achaemenid deportation policies as exemplified by the case of Egyptians. central argument, based on readings Herodotus and Ctesias, is that aim deportations in aftermath Cambyses’ conquest country was stabilisation rule. This to be achieved transplanting a significant number notoriously rebellious makhimoi Lower Egypt, local warlords, into empire’s core region; thereby removing them f...