Actisanes

Actisanes

Actisanes (Gr. polytonic|Ακτισάνης) was a king of Ethiopia who conquered Egypt and governed it with justice. [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Actisanes
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 16-17
publisher =
place = Boston, MA
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0025.html ] He founded the city of Rhinocolura on the con­fines of Egypt and Syria, and was succeeded by Mendes, an Egyptian. Diodorus Siculus says that Actisanes conquered Egypt in the reign of Amasis II, for which we ought perhaps to read Ammosis. At all events, Amasis, the contemporary of Cyrus the Great, cannot be meant. [Diodorus Siculus, i. 60] [Strabo, xvi. p. 759]

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