Actisanes

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Actisanes (Gr. Ακτισάνης) was a king of Ethiopia who conquered Egypt and governed it with justice.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Actisanes”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 16-17 
2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, i. 60
3. ^ Strabo, xvi. p. 759

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).