{"id":2326,"date":"2010-05-31T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/amasis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:25:24","slug":"amasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/amasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Amasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/strong>masis II, <\/strong>was the Greek name of Ahmose\u00a0who reigned from 570-526 BC. Amasis\u00a0is\u00a0given by Plato as the \"AmasisII\"<\/a>name of the Egyptian pharaoh at the time of Solon\u2019s visit to Sais. <\/a>However, Phyllis Young Forsyth<\/a>[<\/sup>266<\/sup><\/a>.38]<\/sup> protests that Plato did not claim that Amasis was on the throne at the time of Solon\u2019s visit, but merely identified Sais as the home of Amasis. The English translations of Tim.21e by Bury<\/a>, Jowett<\/a> and Lee<\/a> are compatible with this, as is the German translation of Plato\u2019s text by Franz Susemihl<\/a>(a)<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0John Michael Greer<\/a>[0345<\/a>]<\/sup>,\u00a0among others,\u00a0supports this view.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Firm historical information for this period\u00a0is often scanty and sometimes contradictory. However, it is thought that Solon left Athens for a number of years and some of that period may have overlapped with part of Amasis\u2019 reign. Herodotus<\/a> is our principal source of information regarding Amasis and he clearly mentions (Bk.1.30) that Solon was at the court of Amasis.\u00a0 Zhirov<\/a> quotes the views of V.S. Struve, who believed that Herodotus\u2019\u00a0 3rd<\/sup> century BC dates were out by 25 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ivan Linforth<\/a> strongly disputes[<\/sup>041<\/a><\/sup>.<\/sup>300]<\/sup> the idea of Solon<\/a> meeting Amasis as \u201cchronologically quite improbable\u201d. He claims that Solon (c.630-560 BC) had returned to Athens before the reign of Amasis. John Michael Greer[<\/sup>0345<\/a><\/sup><\/span>.15]<\/sup>, not very convincingly, attempts to counter this idea with the suggestion that at the time of Solon\u2019s visit, Amasis had not yet ascended the throne.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A more recent refutation of the claim that Plato’s reference to Amasis is an anachronism offered by Diego Ratti<\/a>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901011839\/https:\/\/atlantis-schoppe.de\/susemihl.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)\u00a0<\/sup> Solon and anachronism issue (archive.org)<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amasis II, was the Greek name of Ahmose\u00a0who reigned from 570-526 BC. Amasis\u00a0is\u00a0given by Plato as the name of the Egyptian pharaoh at the time of Solon\u2019s visit to Sais. However, Phyllis Young Forsyth[266.38] protests that Plato did not claim that Amasis was on the throne at the time of Solon\u2019s visit, but merely identified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[989,693,9,2239,1576,988,266,239,643,991,990,146,993,992],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amasis","tag-benjamin-jowett","tag-bury","tag-desmond-lee","tag-diego-ratti","tag-franz-susemihl","tag-herodotus","tag-ivan-linforth","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-phyllis-young-forsyth","tag-sais","tag-solon","tag-v-s-struve","tag-zhirov"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66433,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/66433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}