Ancient Greek: Κυαξάρης, romanized: Kuaxarēs; Latin: Cyaxarēs) was the third king of the Medes. Cyaxares ascended to the throne in 625 BCE, after his father...

campaign to conquer Babylon in 539 BC, while his uncle, Cyaxares II, remained in Ecbatana. Cyaxares II was by then an old man, and because Cyrus II/The Great...

Cyaxares I one of the Near East tribal rulers of the end of the 8th century BC. Cyaxares I, who, according to Berosus and Abydenus, was also called Astyages...

of Amytis, probably the daughter of Cyaxares, with the son of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II. Afterwards Cyaxares and his army went home. In 613 BCE,...

Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his suppliants when Cyaxares sent to demand them of him, war broke out between the Lydians and the Medes...

was a Queen of Ancient Babylon. She was the daughter of the Median king Cyaxares, and the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II. The female name Amytis is the Latinised...

Mede was another name for Astyages. "Cyaxares II". The Greek writer Xenophon tells of a Median king called Cyaxares who was the son of Astyages; Xenophon...

last king of the Median kingdom, reigning from 585 to 550 BCE. The son of Cyaxares, he was dethroned by the Persian king Cyrus the Great. Astyages succeeded...

father-in-law of Cyrus by mediaeval Jewish commentators matches that of Cyaxares II, who is said to be the son of Astyages by Xenophon. Thus this Ahasuerus...

occurs, as predicted by Thales of Miletus, while Alyattes of Lydia fights Cyaxares of Media at a battle on the Halys river, leading to a truce. This is a...