Mandane

Family: Persian · Role: daughter of Astyages · First appears: Book 1 · §102–110

Life events

• Astyages ordered the infant Cyrus to be killed and exposed on the mountains.(Book 1 · §111–116)
  • With: Astyages Cambyses Cyrus
  • “it was in truth the son of Mandane the daughter of Astyages, and of Cambyses the son of Cyrus, and that Astyages bade slay it.”

Book 1 · §102–110

• parent: Astyages “To him was born a daughter whom he named Mandane;”
• married with Cambyses “And when Mandane was married to Cambyses, in the first year Astyages saw another vision.”
• child: Cyrus “The Magian interpreters of dreams signified to him that the offspring of his daughter should be king in his room.”

Book 1 · §111–116

• parent: Astyages “it was in truth the son of Mandane the daughter of Astyages, and of Cambyses the son of Cyrus, and that Astyages bade slay it.”
• child: Cyrus “it was in truth the son of Mandane the daughter of Astyages, and of Cambyses the son of Cyrus, and that Astyages bade slay it.”

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