Mandane
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
his mother · Astyages' daughter · Cyrus's mother · mother · my daughter · your mother
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Cyrus' mother, daughter of Astyages, who mediates between Persian and Median values and warns Cyrus about justice and tyranny.
Why, mother,
said Mandane.
And his mother said,
The Histories
Daughter of Astyages, married to the Persian Cambyses; her son Cyrus is the object of Astyages's fear following two prophetic dreams about her.
Astyages had a daughter, whom he called Mandane:
But during the first year that Mandane was married to Cambyses, Astyages saw a second vision.
namely, that it was the son of Mandane the king's daughter and Cambyses the son of Cyrus, and that Astyages gave the command to kill him.
De Anima
Daughter of Astyages and mother of Cyrus, subject of her father's prophetic dreams.
Herodotus relates that Astyages, king of the Medes, saw in a dream that the bladder of his daughter Mandane, still a virgin, flowed forth into a deluge of Asia;