Amasis II (or Ahmose II), (reigned c. 570 BC - c. 526 BC), pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt
Battus also made an alliance with the new Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis II.
During his reign, Battus realised that Cyrenaica had become an unstable state, from the unstable relations with the Libyans, Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis II and the attempted overthrow of his late father and himself from Learchus.
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To further protect Cyrenaica from the Libyans and their aristocracy, Battus made an alliance with the Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis II.
Amasis II complied, but did so at the expense of forcing the physician to leave his family and children behind and forcibly sent him to Persia.
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Phanes of Halicarnassus was a wise council man, a tactician, and a mercenary from Halicarnassus, serving the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II (570–526 BC).
The rule of the family of Necho I ends with the death of Apries, who was replaced by Amasis II, originally a general, and not of the royal house at all.
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Later on, she was taken to Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis (570–536 BC), and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.
Herodotus recounts of one possible motive for Cambyses II to want to take on Egypt: According to Herodotus, Amasis II came to power by bloody means by defeating, and murdering his predecessor pharaoh Apries.