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SESOSTRIS , the name of a legendary See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Egypt. According to See also:Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus (who calls him Sesoosis) and See also:Strabo, he conquered the whole See also:world, even See also:Scythia and See also:Ethiopia, divided Egypt into administrative districts or nomes, was a See also:great See also:law-giver, and introduced a See also:system of See also:caste and the See also:worship of See also:Serapis. He has been considered a See also:compound of Seti I. and See also:Rameses II., belonging to the XIXth See also:Dynasty. In See also:Manetho,however, he occupied the See also:place of the second Senwosri (formerly read Usertesen) of the XIIth Dynasty, and his name is now usually viewed as a corruption of Senwosri. So far as is known no See also:Egyptian king penetrated a See also:day's See also:journey beyond the See also:Euphrates or into See also:Asia See also:Minor, or touched the See also:continent of See also:Europe. The See also:kings of the XVIIIth and XIXth dynasties were the greatest conquerors that Egypt ever produced, and their records are clear on this point. Senwosri III. raided See also:south See also:Palestine and Ethiopia, and at Semna beyond the second See also:cataract set up a stela of See also:conquest that in its expressions recalls the stelae of Sesostris in Herodotus: Sesostris may, therefore, be the highly magnified portrait of this See also:Pharaoh. Khian, the powerful but obscure See also:Hyksos king of Egypt, whose prenomen might be pronounced Sweserenre,is perhaps a possible prototype, for See also:objects inscribed with his name have been found from See also:Bagdad to See also:Cnossus. Sesostris is evidently a mythical figure calculated to satisfy the See also:pride of the Egyptians in their See also:ancient achievements, after they had come into contact with the great conquerors of See also:Assyria and See also:Persia. When we recollect that the Ethiopian Tearchus (Tirhaka) of the 7th See also:century B.C., who was hopelessly worsted by the Assyrians and scarcely ventured outside the See also:Nile valley, was credited by Megasthenes (4th century) and Strabo with having extended his conquests as far as See also:India and the pillars of See also:Hercules, it is not surprising if the dim figures of antiquity were magnified to a less degree. In the See also:case of Tearchus, the See also:miscellaneous levies which he employed himself and those which composed the Egyptian and See also:Assyrian armies opposed to him, and the lands that Egypt and Ethiopia traded with, must all have been counted, partly through misunderstanding, partly through wilful perversion, to his See also:empire.
Herodotus ii. 102-III ; Diod. Sic. i. 53-59; Strabo xv. p. 687; see also See also:article EGYPT; and Kurt Sethe, " Sesostris," 1900, in his Linters. z. Gesch. u. Altertumskunde Agyptens, tome ii. (F. L1.
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