Labynetos

Family: Babylonian · Role: peace mediator and ruler · First appears: Book 1 · §72–77

Life events

Syennesis and Labynetos brokered peace and arranged Aryenis's marriage to Astyages.(Book 1 · §72–77)
- With: Syennesis Alyattes Aryenis Astyages
- “they brought about an interchange of marriages; for they decided that Alyattes should give his daughter Aryenis to Astyages the son of Kyaxares”

with Syennesis (They jointly mediated peace between the Lydians and Medes.) “And they who brought about the peace between them were Syennesis the Kilikian and Labynetos the Babylonian”
with Croesus (Croesus had concluded an alliance with the Babylonians, then ruled by Labynetos.) “for with these also an alliance had been concluded by him, Labynetos being at that time ruler of the Babylonians”

parent: Nitocris “and it was the son of this woman, bearing the same name as his father, Labynetos, and being ruler over the Assyrians, against whom Cyrus was marching.”
with Cyrus (interaction) “and it was the son of this woman, bearing the same name as his father, Labynetos, and being ruler over the Assyrians, against whom Cyrus was marching.”
enemies with Cyrus “and it was the son of this woman, bearing the same name as his father, Labynetos, and being ruler over the Assyrians, against whom Cyrus was marching.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.