Another obscure Egyptian POD: Bucolic War

The lot of you are probably getting annoyed by my need to look for obscure PODs but this one is really interesting and I need it to have it mentioned. Isidore or as he was known in Roman-Egyptian society as Isidorus, was a native Egyptian priest in the second century AD. He led a major native Egyptian uprising against the Romans during Marcus Aurelius' reign. According to the historian Dio Cassius, he led the Egyptians in the Bucolic War, which broke out in the years 172 or 173 as a result of heavy taxation imposed in the Boucolia marshes of the Nile Delta. Get this, the Egyptians were pretty successful at first, defeating the Romans in pitched battle and afterwards, almost took Alexandria, had Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, arrived to put down the rebellion. It took a long time for Cassius to put down the uprising by waiting for the rebels to splinter into rival factions.

The rebellions messed up Egypt's economy and left it in a state of decline. What if Cassius' arrival is delayed? Could Isidorus' forces capture Alexandria?
 
didn't cassius end up rebelling against marcus aurelius??

I think it would be interested if they made some kind of deal.
Indepndent egypt for military support taking over the rest of the empire
 
I can see that being a possibility but I would think Isidore would concentrate his efforts, if he takes control of Alexandria and the Nile Delta, to conquer the rest of Egypt before he promises support.
 
heck, all that is needed is for the messenger to syria to either be delayed or simply die along the way. support never comes, or it comes too late. then when this syrian guy rebels, he might have an agreement with the egyptians to help him with the romans if he helps them sort of thing. they might become one nation even
 
I don't think it would matter much in the long term. The boukoles were really more of a tax revolt than an native uprising against foreign rulers in any national or ethnic sense. Any success against Rome would likely be temporary.

Of course this was not that long since the Jewish uprisings. The repercussions for Egypt might be unpleasant if they actually took Alexandria. And there are some who link the disappearance of Legio XXII Deiotariana to the bucolic war.
 
I'm actually not counting on anything being a major success but on the long term repercussions. The actual revolts crippled Egypt's economy; I wondered if an initially succesful rebellion would do to Egypt.
 
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