Apries

Apries was a pharaoh of Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty, ruling from 589 to 570 BCE. His reign saw Egyptian intervention in the Levant and ended in civil conflict with Amasis.

Psamtik II: A pharaoh of Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty who ruled from 595 to 589 BCE. Apries succeeded Psamtik II and inherited his army, administration, and foreign commitments.
Amasis II: A pharaoh of Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty who ruled after overthrowing Apries. Egyptian and Greek accounts frame Apries’s final years through his rival’s rise.
Apries’s Palace at Memphis: A royal palace complex at Memphis associated with the Egyptian pharaoh Apries. The palace represents the monumental presence of Apries’s rule beyond the Saite capital.
Civil war in ancient Egypt: Armed conflict between rival political factions within ancient Egypt. Apries’s struggle with Amasis became a defining dynastic conflict of the period.
Necho II: A pharaoh of Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty who ruled from 610 to 595 BCE. Necho’s campaigns established the dynastic involvement in the Levant that continued under Apries.
Herodotus: A Greek historian of the fifth century BCE whose work describes peoples and conflicts around the Mediterranean. Herodotus recounts Apries’s conflict with Amasis and gives a lasting version of his fate.
Naucratis: An ancient Greek trading settlement in Egypt’s Nile Delta, established under Egyptian royal oversight. Its commercial ties illustrate the Mediterranean connections sustained by Saite Egypt.
Babylonian conquest of Judah: The Babylonian destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and deportation of part of its population in the sixth century BCE. Egypt’s failure to prevent Judah’s defeat weakened the credibility of Apries’s regional policy.
Psamtik I: The founder of Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty, who reunited the country and ruled from 664 to 610 BCE. His restored Saite state was the dynasty Apries inherited several generations later.
Diodorus Siculus: A Greek historian of the first century BCE who wrote a universal history in forty books. His later history offers another ancient account of Egypt’s kings and Apries’s overthrow.

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