Late Period Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
...Carians, and possibly Phoenicians, as well as Egyptians. However, military activity in Nubia was comparatively safe. Action of a more dangerous sort can be seen at the end of the reign of Apries (589–570), when an expedition to conquer Greek Cyrene on the Libyan coast led to a mutiny by the army and the deposition of the pharaoh himself. Events of this sort may have happened in earlier Egypt, but the sources are silent. However, the deposition of Apries is unlikely to have been unique in pharaonic history. Apries's successor, Amasis , is the survivor of the...
Myths Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
...myth gives them a clearly moral emphasis. This is absent from the early Greek accounts, which may reflect the influence of Babylon, where Enlil, the ruling deity, is merely disturbed by the noise made by men; and the Egyptian tale does not go beyond an emphasis on the rebellious mutiny of man against Re (see Griffiths 1991, p. 14). Other Solar Myths The falcon god Horus, whose name probably means “he who is on high,” is naturally, as a god of heaven, intimately connected with solar manifestations. In the earliest corpus of literary import, the Pyramid Texts,...
Soldier’s Law Reference library
Tom van Bochove
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... c . 650 ; Schminck: later 9th cent.), and occurs—in different recensions—in many manuscripts. The regulations in the Soldier’s Law are mainly penal and disciplinary in character, with heavy penalties for crimes in wartime. Tom van Bochove ed. W. Ashburner , ‘The Byzantine Mutiny Act’, JHS 46 (1926), 80–109. A new edition is being prepared by L. Burgmann. ODB s.v. Nomos Stratiotikos ( L. Burgmann , E. MacGeer ). L. Burgman , ‘Die Nomoi Stratiotikos, Georgikos und Nautikos’, ZRVI 46 (2009), 43–64. A. Schminck , ‘Probleme des sog. “ Νόμος Ῥοδίων...
