Mandane of Media

Mandane ( * before 595 BC) was the wife of the Persian king Cambyses I and mother of Cyrus II

Herodotus

According to Herodotus Mandane was a daughter of the Median king Astyages and Queen Aryenis. However, Christian Settipani assigns it to another mother, whose name is unknown.

Herodotus, Astyages had been plagued by a dream in which Mandane as much water left, that his kingdom was flooded it. In fear for his throne he gave Mandane no Meder, but the Achaemenid vassal prince Cambyses I. wife.

In another dream of Astyages Mandane grew a vine from the belly, which, as the current spread over Ecbatana and Asia. The dream interpreter of Astyages laid the dream of a threat to the Median rule, which could be from a future son of his daughter, who later became Cyrus II, going out.

Thereupon Astyages his daughter get home from Persia and wanted to kill them by Harpagos after the birth of her son, but designed after the model of older legends miracle story was the infant, Cyrus II, reported in one of Herodotus, saved. He collapsed later in the Median king and founded the Persian Empire, which was fulfilled Astyages ' dream.

For the reports of Herodotus are no cuneiform documents. They are therefore at least partially evaluated as a legend. When Mandane died is unknown.

Other reports

Even after Xenophon was Mandane daughter of Astyages, consort of Cambyses I and mother of Cyrus II but this came under Xenophon until the age of 13 with his mother to his grandfather Astyages. Nicolaus of Damascus, which is based on the historian Ctesias of Cnidus, reported that the daughter of Astyages was called Amytis, first married the Medes Spitamas and her second husband Cyrus II.