Mandane of Media

Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great

600 BCE to 559 BCE

Mandane (Greek: Μανδάνη, Mandánē) was a Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The name likely originates from the Old Iranian *Mandanā-, which means “delighting, cheerful”.

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