Note this entire site has moved to http://messagenetcommresearch.com. Please update your links to us to use this new web address. Thank you!
Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Nitokris (2)
The only female ruler of ancient Egypt.
The priests of Egypt showed the historian, Herodotus, a list of the three hundred and thirty Egyptian rulers and Nitokris was the only woman on the list; she was elevated to queen after her brother was slain by his subjects.
Nitokris devised a plan to avenge her brother’s death and proceeded to build a large underground chamber and invited the people she thought were responsible for her brother’s murder to a banquet in the newly constructed chamber; when the doomed guests were within the chamber, she opened floodgates which allowed the Nile waters to drown them; she then killed herself by jumping into a pit of hot ashes.
Cut and paste the following text for use in a paper or electronic document report.
| Stewart, Michael. "People, Places & Things: Nitokris (2)", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant. http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/ppt/Nitokris_2.html |
Cut and paste the following html for use in a web report.
| Stewart, Michael. "People, Places & Things: Nitokris (2)", <i>Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant</i>. http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/ppt/Nitokris_2.html |
Cut and paste the following html for use in a web report. This format will link back to this page, which may be useful but may not be required.
| Stewart, Michael. "People, Places & Things: Nitokris (2)", <i>Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant</i>. <a href="http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/ppt/Nitokris_2.html">http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/ppt/Nitokris_2.html</a> |
Original content Copyright 1996–2005 Michael Stewart. All Rights Reserved.
Website design and structure Copyright 2005 Michael Wiik
Site development and maintenance by Messagenet Communications Research