Cambyses I
Cambyses I. (Persian کمبوجیه Kambūdschīye [k ʲ ː æmbu ʤiɛ ], Old Persian: Kambūdschiya ) was an Old Persian king from the dynasty of the Achaemenids.
Cambyses reigned after the death of his father, Cyrus I. from about 600 BC to 559 BC as a politically independent king of Anshan and was a member of the Confederate States Community, which was probably then led by the Medes, Cyaxares II and of Astyages. This follows from the cylinder inscription of his son Cyrus II, which the ancient Persian empire (see the Achaemenid Empire ) founded. Also on building inscriptions from Uruk to Cyrus II called the son of Cambyses. The latter might have been after a few guesses also a younger brother of Arukku.
The activities of Cambyses we have no sources of his own time. According to the report by the Greek historian Herodotus Astyages married his daughter Mandane with Cambyses I, and she was the mother of Cyrus II There are, however, in the cuneiform sources no confirmation. Ctesias of Cnidus denies even - certainly wrongly - the descent of Cyrus II of Cambyses; his own family history information are classified by the research as completely implausible. Xenophon referred to in his novel education of Cyrus Cambyses as king of Persia; this information is correct than that of Herodotus, who gives him only a middle position in the Persian hierarchy.