# Cambyses — Dialogues character guide

> Cambyses in Dialogues by Seneca.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** King Cambyses

**First appearance:** 0001-i

## Who they are

Persian king, used as an example of tyranny and madness.

## In the story

### [King Cambyses and the Suppression of Anger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_2_se/chapters/xiv)

King Cambyses, excessively addicted to wine, kills his advisor's son to prove his self-control while drunk.

### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_2_se/chapters/xx)

King of the Persians who inflicted cruel punishments and led a disastrous campaign against the Æthiopians.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_2_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned among the Persian royal house as never thinking his empire large enough.

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