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Mandane of Media. 559 BC ? Gur-e-Dokhtar (?) Aryenis (?) Mandane ( Greek: Μανδάνη, Mandánē) was a Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The name likely originates from the Old Iranian *Mandanā-, which means “ delighting ...
Mandane of Media. Mandane (Greek: Μανδάνη, Mandánē) was a Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The name likely originates from the Old Iranian *Mandanā-, which means “delighting, cheerful”.Mandane was the daughter of ...
Mandane ( Greek: Μανδάνη, Mandánē) was a Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The name likely originates from the Old Iranian *Mandanā-, which means “ delighting, cheerful ”.
Jan 1, 2000 · MANDANE (Gk. Mandánē ), name of a daughter of the Median king Astyages (Herodotus 1.107.1; Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.1); in all probability the name goes back to OIran. * Mandanā - “delighting, cheerful” (cf. Ved. mandána -; see Schmitt, 2002, p. 60 and 2011, pp. 234 f., but also Werba, pp. 253–56). According to one version of the ...
The name Mandane is a Latinized form derived from the Greek Μανδάνη, Mandánē, itself from the Old Iranian name *Mandanā-which means delighting and cheerful. Mandana in Herodotus' histories According to Herodotus, Mandane was the daughter of Astyages, King of Media.
Mandane (591 BC-559 BC) was the daughter of King Astyages of Media, the wife of Cambyses I of Anshan, and the mother of Cyrus the Great. Her father ordered her infant son Cyrus murdered after having a nightmare that predicted Cyrus overthrowing him and conquering the world, but his general Harpagus, entrusted with Cyrus' murder, instead gave him to a shepherd whose wife had given birth to a ...
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According to Herodotus, Mandane was the daughter of Astyages, King of Media. Career The name “Mandana” means: “Eternal.” in Old Persian He consulted the magians who interpreted the dream as a warning that Mandane"s son would overthrow his rule. To forestall that outcome, Astyages betrothed Mandane to the vassal prince, Cambyses I of ...