Kyaxares
Family: Median · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · §9–18
Life events
- Alyattes made war against Kyaxares and the Medes.(Book 1 · §9–18)
- With: Alyattes
- “This last made war against Kyaxares the descendant of Deïokes and against the Medes”
- Cyrus overthrew the rule of Astyages.(Book 1 · §45–52)
- Kyaxares gave Scythian boys to the Scythians to learn their speech and archery.(Book 1 · §72–77 · 📍 land of the Medes)
- With: Scythians
- “he delivered boys to them to learn their speech and the art of shooting with the bow.”
- Kyaxares treated the Scythians harshly after they returned empty-handed from hunting.(Book 1 · §72–77)
- With: Scythians
- “when they ed with empty hands Kyaxares (being, as he showed on this occasion, not of an eminently good disposition) dealt with them very harshly and used insult towards them.”
- Alyattes refused to surrender the Scythians to Kyaxares, and war broke out between Lydia and Media.(Book 1 · §72–77)
- With: Alyattes
- “After this, seeing that Alyattes would not give up the Scythians when Kyaxares demanded them, there had arisen war between the Lydians and the Medes lasting five years”
Book 1 · §9–18
- with Deïokes (Deïokes is identified as an ancestor of Kyaxares.) “This last made war against Kyaxares the descendant of Deïokes and against the Medes,”
- younger kin: Deïokes (Kyaxares is described as a descendant of Deïokes.) “This last made war against Kyaxares the descendant of Deïokes and against the Medes”
Book 1 · §45–52
- child: Astyages “the overthrowing of the rule of Astyages the son of Kyaxares by Cyrus”
Book 1 · §72–77
- parent: Phraortes (son of Deïokes) “Kyaxares the son of Phraortes, the son of Deïokes”
- child: Astyages “they decided that Alyattes should give his daughter Aryenis to Astyages the son of Kyaxares”
Book 1 · §102–110
- parent: Phraortes (son of Deïokes) “When Phraortes had brought his life to an end, Kyaxares the son of Phraortes, the son of Deïokes, received the power.”
- parent: Deïokes “When Phraortes had brought his life to an end, Kyaxares the son of Phraortes, the son of Deïokes, received the power.”
- child: Astyages “and Astyages son of Kyaxares received from him the kingdom.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.