Amasis II (Khnemibre)
570 BCE–526 BCE · Late-Period · Sais
Amasis II (throne-name Khnemibre; also rendered Ahmose II) was the last great Saite king of Dynasty 26, reigning in the Late Period around 570-526 BCE (Shaw's conventional dates). A former general who came to power in a revolt, he is remembered, largely through the affectionate portrait in the Greek historian Herodotus, for a long, prosperous, and notably philhellene reign: he favoured the Greek trading colony at Naukratis and made dedications to Greek temples, marking the high point of Saite-Greek contact. He died shortly before the Persian conquest that he had long managed to forestall. Herodotus's vivid characterisation of him is Greek reception and should be read with that in mind.
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