-
marrying Cyaxares's daughter Amytis, and
Cyaxares marrying a
daughter or
granddaughter of Nabopol****ar. Once the
alliance between Cyaxares and Nabopol****ar...
- of Amytis,
probably the
daughter of
Cyaxares, with the son of Nabopol****ar,
Nebuchadnezzar II.
Afterwards Cyaxares and his army went home. In 613 BCE,...
-
campaign to
conquer Babylon in 539 BC,
while his uncle,
Cyaxares II,
remained in Ecbatana.
Cyaxares II was by then an old man, and
because Cyrus II/The Great...
-
Cyaxares I was one of the Near East
tribal rulers of the end of the 8th
century BC.
Cyaxares I, who,
according to
Berosus and Abydenus, was also called...
- last king of the
Median kingdom,
reigning from 585 to 550 BCE. The son of
Cyaxares, he was
dethroned by the
Persian king
Cyrus the Great.
Astyages succeeded...
- of Babylon, wife of
Nebuchadnezzar II and
daughter of the
Median king
Cyaxares. The
female name
Amytis is the
Latinised form of the Gr**** name Amutis...
-
risen to the
position of
paramount chief,
subjugating his
former equals.
Cyaxares probably rose to
prominence in this context. He may
indeed have fought...
- Mede was
another name for Astyages. "
Cyaxares II". The Gr****
writer Xenophon tells of a
Median king
called Cyaxares who was the son of Astyages; Xenophon...
- part of Iran was
first unified as a
political entity by the
Medes under Cyaxares in the
seventh century BC, and
reached its
territorial height in the sixth...
-
major power of the
ancient Near East
after the
collapse of ****yria.
Under Cyaxares (r. 625–585 BC), the kingdom's
borders were
expanded to the east and west...
