Cyrus The Great And His Wife

Atossa had a great authority in the achaemenid royal house and her marriage with darius i is likely due to her power influence and the fact that she was a direct descendant of cyrus.

Cyrus the great and his wife. When cassandane died all the nations of cyrus persian empire observed a great mourning. This is reported by herodotus. His empire stretching from the aegean sea to the indus river was the largest that had ever existed at the time of his rule cyrus pieced his kingdom together using a mixture of conquest and diplomacy attesting to his skills as a warrior and a statesman. His mother was princess mandane the daughter of king astyages the last king of the median empire and overlord of anshan.

Over the centuries many kings and conquerors have been given the moniker the great but some say that the figure who deserved this title the most was cyrus the great the ancient king of persia. Cyrus the great s father was the persian king cambyses i. Inscriptions indicate that when the latter died two of his sons shared the throne as cyrus i of anshan and. Cyrus the great was the founder of the achaemenian empire.

700 bc who was succeeded by his son teispes of anshan. So when cyrus the great succeeded his father s throne in 559 bc he was still subservient to his grandfather. Cyrus led several military campaigns against the most powerful kingdoms of the time including media lydia and babylonia through these campaigns he united much of the middle east under persian hegemony while keeping the local administration mostly intact.