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GCSE History · key term
An act that violates or shows contempt for something considered sacred.
Used by OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Cambyses II: The Conquest of Egypt and DeathHerodotus explicitly links the location of the injury to the wound Cambyses had supposedly inflicted on the Apis bull. This gives the story a moral pattern: the king suffers an injury resembling the sacrilege he committed.
Assess Cambyses’ attitude using contrasting evidence: Herodotus’ accounts of sacrilege and Egyptian evidence of religious participation.
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