When the Peloponnesian war ended in 404 with the defeat of Athena, the leadership of the Greeks came to Sparta, which found itself in a conflict with the Persians a few years later. This was favorable to Egypt, which arose in Persia in 404, following the death of Dara II. This new revolution was led by Amritius II, who ruled Egypt for six years, but his rule was shaky until Sparta fought with the Persians and did not help him retain his kingdom during the first part of his reign, except that Artaxerxes II engaged in betraying his brother Cyrus. After the victory of the great king over his brother in 401, Spartan clashed with the Persians, but the owner of Egypt soon tried to gain the sympathy of the victorious great king, thus stirring the emotions of the Egyptians and was hostile to the Persians, prompting them to take off Amritaius in 398, Herites. His place was king over Egypt. In 396, the great king assembled a large fleet in Phenicia, which was likely to be the re-opening of Egypt. But Sparta was afraid that this fleet would be used to destroy its maritime sovereignty. In that year it offered a treaty with Egypt, which became fully independent. Egypt welcomed this to guarantee the aid of the Greeks when the Persians attacked it.
Nafrits succeeded three kings, the third of whom was called Hakori. In his time, Egypt allied itself with Evagoras, King of Cyprus, in 389, but this alliance prevented the Persians from listening to the Sparta offers of the Peace Conference. Sparta had fought its struggle in Asia and Taft To the ladder. In 388 Athens joined the alliance of Egypt and Cyprus. In 386, however, the Antaleidas was reconciled between the Persians, Sparta, then Athens and its allies. Sparta and Athens did not mean that this reconciliation would include Egypt, which we had previously sought to ally with.
At that time, Artagrxes could attack Anagoras or Hakuri or both if he wished, but preferred to direct his first attack on Egypt between 385 and 383, but failed. Abagoras succeeded in helping Hakuri and Athens fight the Persians until they were defeated in the sea and besieged on his island. He made peace with the Persians in 380. Shortly thereafter, he fell victim to a plot and was succeeded by his son Nicocles.
In 378 Hafoury died and his successor, Nafrits II, for four months and then ascended the throne of Nectanebo. The circumstances of Artagzarcsis prevented attacking Egypt before 364, when a strong campaign was launched against it by a large number of Greek mercenaries.
When Nectanpo I died in 361, his successor, Egypt's son, was succeeded by his son Tazhos (Zednor = Taehos), who seized the opportunity of the Persian Empire to split apart and set up a campaign to invade Syria. He used the old king of Sparta to train his army, the prince of the Athenian sea Chabrias for his fleet, and took a large part of the income of the temples to pay his soldiers, which angered the Egyptians. When the army arrived in Phenicia, the dispute between the Spartan king grew, and the Egyptians rebelled against him in Egypt. Ajslaus did not hesitate to isolate himself to the Persians. The new king decided to abandon the campaign and return to Egypt to support his position there. When the new king came to power after a fierce war, Egypt left Ajselaos and Khabiras, and Nkatabanu decided to hire others to lead his forces. At that time, no wise king could have participated in a war without hiring the Greeks to help him. The mercenaries of the Greeks were the ones who carried out the greatest mobilization in the armies of all the forces that were created.
In 358, the Persian throne Artaxerxis III ascended (Ochos), and almost consolidated his position in his empire until he decided to calm nine years. It is worth mentioning that Nkatabanu I and II took years of peace to care for the arts. The renaissance that characterized the second half of the independence period and raised our interest as the introduction and catalyst of the great artistic products of the early Ptolemaic era must be attributed to the patronage of these two kings and to the inspiration that was transmitted in the arts Restoration of independence and the development of the country a great degree of strength.
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