Phanes of Halicarnassus, was a wise councilman serving Amasis, who would eventually help Cambyses II to conquer Egypt.
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.