Astyages, married to Aryenis, the sister of…

585 BCE to 574 BCE

Astyages, married to Aryenis, the sister of King Croesus of Lydia, to seal the treaty between the two empires, ascends the Median throne in 585 upon the death of his father Cyarxes later in the year.

He has inherited a large empire, ruled in alliance with his two brothers-in-law, Croesus of Lydia and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whose wife, Amytis, Astyages' sister, is the queen for whom Nebuchadnezzar is said to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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Ecbatana > Hamadan Hamadan Iran View →

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Astyages View → Croesus View → Cyaxares View → Nebuchadnezzar II View →

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Lydia, Kingdom of View → Persian people View → Neo-Babylonian, or Chaldean, Empire View → Medes, Kingdom of the View →

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Younger Subboreal Period View → Iron Age, Near and Middle East View → Iron Age Cold Epoch View → Classical antiquity View → Median-Lydian War of 590-585 BCE View →

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