Herodotus' Histories

Kyno

Also known as: Spaco · Family: unknown · Role: wife of Mitradates · First appears: Book 1 · §102–110

Life events

  • Cyrus told his parents how he had survived and praised Kyno, who had raised him.(Book 1 · §117–122 · 📍 the house of Cambyses)
    • With: Cyrus Cambyses
    • “And he told them, saying that before this he had not known but had been utterly in error; on the way, however, he had learnt all his own fortunes”
  • Cyrus’s parents spread a report that a bitch had reared him after he was exposed.(Book 1 · §117–122)
    • With: Cambyses Cyrus
    • “And his parents took up this name from him, and in order that their son might be thought by the Persians to have been preserved in a more supernatural manner, they set on foot a report that Cyrus when he was exposed had been reared by a bitch”

Book 1 · §102–110

  • married with Mitradates “and he was married to one who was his fellow-slave; and the name of the woman to whom he was married was Kyno in the tongue of the Hellenes and in the Median tongue Spaco,”

Book 1 · §117–122

  • ward: Cyrus (Kyno brought up Cyrus.) “And he said that he had been brought up by the wife of the herdsman, and continued to praise her throughout, so that Kyno was the chief person in his tale.”
  • with Cyrus (Kyno brought Cyrus up.) “And he said that he had been brought up by the wife of the herdsman, and continued to praise her throughout, so that Kyno was the chief person in his tale.”

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