Serpent and the Satrap, The Rebellion of Inaros and the Egyptian War Against Persia

The Serpent and the Satrap,  The Rebellion of Inaros and the Egyptian War Against Persia In 460 BCE, a Libyan frontier chieftain did what no Egyptian rebel had managed in seventy years of Persian occupation: he convinced the naval empire of Athens to go to war on his behalf. The Serpent and the Satrap tells the story of Inaros II, a man who fused tribal warlord authority with the borrowed glory of...