Egyptian Attitudes to the Persians
Abstract
The question which I want to address in the present paper is this: what exactly does our evidence tell us about the attitude of the Egyptians to their Persian conquerors? Certainly there was armed opposition to them on a number of occasions, but were these rebellions simply opportunistic reactions to foreign occupation which would have arisen, irrespective of who the foreigners were, or was there something specific to the Persian way of doing things which gave rise to these events?
Professor Alan B Lloyd
Alan was Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1994 until 2007. He retired in 2006 from his post as Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Swansea. He participated in EES excavations at North Saqqara in 1972–3 and with the Society's Saqqara Epigraphic Survey which began work in 1976 on a series of Old Kingdom tombs in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery. Professor Lloyd is an authority on the writings of the historian Herodotus and has an extensive publication record. He has served as Editor of the EES Excavation Memoirs and edited the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology from 1979 to 1985. Click for directions |
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