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Sesostris
Sesostris () was the name of a king of ancient Egypt who, according to Herodotus, led a military expedition into parts of Europe.
== Account of Herodotus ==
In Herodotus' ''Histories'' there appears a story told by Egyptian priests about a Pharaoh Sesostris, who once led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, then fought his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians (possibly in modern Romania and Bulgaria). Sesostris then returned home, leaving colonists behind at the river Phasis in Colchis. Herodotus cautioned the reader that much of this story came second hand via Egyptian priests, but also noted that the Colchians were commonly known to be Egyptian colonists.〔"For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others." Herodotus ''Histories'' 2.104〕
According to Diodorus Siculus (who calls him Sesoösis), and Strabo, he conquered the whole world, even Scythia and Ethiopia, divided Egypt into administrative districts or ''nomes'', was a great law-giver, and introduced a caste system into Egypt and the worship of Serapis. Herodotus also relates that when Sesostris defeated an army without much resistance he erected a pillar in their capital with a vagina on it to symbolize the fact that the army fought like women.〔Herodotus ''Histories'' 2.102〕 Pliny the Elder also makes mention of Sesostris, who, he claims, was defeated by Saulaces, a gold-rich king of Colchis.
Herodotus describes Sesostris as the father of the blind king Pheron, who was less warlike than his father.
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