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

Abstract

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