Phanes of Halicarnassus, was a wise councilman serving Amasis, who would eventually help Cambyses II to conquer Egypt.
Cambyses II: King of Persia (Lydia, Babylonia, Persis, Anshan, and Media).
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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).
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Phanes, disgruntled with the pharoh deserted Egypt and travelled by the ship with the intention of speaking with the Persian emperor Cambyses II.
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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.
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