CYAXARES

sīăkˈsərēz, d. 585 b.c., king of Media (c.625–585 b.c.). His name also appears as Umakishtar and Huyakhshtara. In the course of his reign he raised the kingdom of the Medes to a major power in the Middle East. Cyaxares reorganized Median military forces, developing the cavalry especially, and renewed war with Assyria. He captured and leveled (614) Ashur and after joining forces with Nabopolassar of Babylonia as well as with the Scythians, who were former enemies, besieged Nineveh, occupying and pillaging the city in 612. Fighting continued (612–605) in N Mesopotamia and ended in the defeat of the Assyrians, with Cyaxares claiming Assyria proper as Media's share of the spoils. Hostilities later erupted between Media and the neighboring kingdom of Lydia in the northwest; they lasted from 590 to 585, ending in a stalemate. Cyaxares was succeeded by his son Astyages.

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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vol. 3
Book by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford Lasor, Lawrence T. Geraty, Edgar W. Smith; W.B. Eerdmans, 1979
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
...kings of Media: Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares, Astyages. The first may be the Dayaukku...another prince of the same name (a second Cyaxares is attested, in Sar- gons time, ARAB...dated between 650 and 625 B.C. With Cyaxares more information becomes available through...
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Iran from the Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest
Book by R. Ghirshman; Penguin Books, 1954
Subjects: Iran--History--Ancient To 640 A.D
...overlordship on the Mannai and the Persians, Cyaxares was master of the western part of the...whose temerity had cost him his life. Cyaxares seems to have begun by taking Harhar...for long, however, for in 615 B.C. Cyaxares marched against Nineveh, which resisted...
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Ancient Greeks West and East:
Book by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region, Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C, Mediterranean Region--Antiquities, Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Greek Influences
...were represented very unfavourably. Cyaxares could not in fact defeat the Scythians...74). According to this account, Cyaxares granted asylum to a group of Scythians...the Scythians came into conflict with Cyaxares and he offended them. In revengc, the...
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History of Early Iran
Book by George G. Cameron; University of Chicago Press, 1936
Subjects: Elam--History, Iran--History
...completely successful. Late in September Cyaxares returned to Media with his share of the...assistance. By November of that year Cyaxares and his troops reached Babylonia, where...the destruction wrought in Harran by Cyaxares and his Medes was enough to bring fear...
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Lectures on Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus: Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians - Vol. 1
Book by B. G. Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz; Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852
Subjects: History, Ancient
...Hellespont. Herodotus further relates, that Cyaxares, after having pre viously carried on...Asdahag, however, is the same name as Cyaxares; Ki or Kai is a prefix signifying in...been formed from them. In this manner Cyaxares is formed out of Kai-Axar. But Axar...
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Royal Scythians and the Slave-trade in Herodotus' Scythia *
Journal article by David Braund; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, Books, Exports, History, International trade, Slave trade
...introduced particularly in the service of Cyaxares the Mede (1.73-4). At first...the rulers table. However, one day Cyaxares, prone to rage, made the mistake of...For the Scythians the humiliation of Cyaxares abusive display of power was undeserved...
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Administrative Legacies of the Persian World-state Empire: Implications for Modern Public Administration, Part 1
Journal article by Ali Farazmand; Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 26, 2002
Subjects: History, Iran, Public administration, Series & special reports, Studies
...history, they adopted the concept of "state" and turned that concept into practice. Under the brilliant military leader, Cyaxares King, they were also "the first who organized the Asiatic armies by using them in separate units-spearmen, archers, and...
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The Cup of Fury: The Preferred Title of Caroline Gordon's None Shall Look Back
Journal article by Walton Young; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Gordon, Caroline--Works, None Shall Look Back (Novel), United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals, War stories, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Works
...will become the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Nineveh was destroyed in 612 B.C. by the Medes and Babylonians under Cyaxares and Nabopolassar. (2) Another problem, moreover, with the title None Shall Look Back arises. Because both Nineveh and...
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Media and Its Discontents
Journal article by Matthew Waters; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Medes--History, Medes--Portrayals, Media (Ancient country)--Analysis, Media (Ancient country)--Portrayals
...Empire and convincingly applies this evidence to his framework of Median history. For example, the two primary Median rulers, Cyaxares and Astyages, were not emperors in the mold of the Persian Empire but rather authoritative chiefs (see pp. 7-9). Liverani...
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Father Avoidant, Mother Dependent: the First Seven Years in a Child's Life in Classical Greece
Journal article by Robert Rousselle; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 33, 2005
...laurel tree while her lover has intercourse with her.176 In an equally fictitious source Xenophon relates how Cyrus uncle Cyaxares offers his daughter to his nephew, the same girl he would often "pet" when he came as a youth to visit. For years afterward...


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Iran-A History
Magazine article; New Internationalist, March 2007
Subjects: Iran--History, Iran--Political aspects, Iran--Religious aspects
...significant empire, from the seventh century BCE. Mede king Cyaxares destroyed the Assyrian capital Nineveh in 612 BCE; Babylons...king Nebuchadnezzar held off the Mede threat by marrying Cyaxares daughter, for whom he built the Hanging Gardens. ILLUSTRATION...
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Iran's 5,000 Years of Recorded History
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIV, April 30, 1996
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Archaeology, Government, History, International relations, Iran
...ranging from modern Tabriz in the north and Isfahan in the south, with the Median capital at Ecbatana, present-day Hamadan. Cyaxares, son of Phraortes, founder of Median power, was one of the kings who conquered Ninevah in about 612 B.C., breaking the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cyaxares  - 7 results

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Cyaxares
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CYAXARES siak s rez, d. 585 b.c., king of...to a major power in the Middle East. Cyaxares reorganized Median military forces, developing...in the defeat of the Assyrians, with Cyaxares claiming Assyria proper as Medias share...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...created a strong state in the 7th cent. Cyaxares , son of Phraortes, founder of Median...same time, Cambyses I, was vassal to Cyaxares. According to Herodotus he married the daughter of the Median ruler Astyages (Cyaxares son), and his son Cyrus was thus also...
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Assyria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...empire and contributed to its weakness. The king of the Medes, Cyaxares , and the Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar, joined forces and...Babylonia was renewed in power, and the great-grandson of Cyaxares, Cyrus the Great , was to establish the Persian Empire, which...
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Media
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...upon for Median history. The Medes extended their rule over Persia during the reign of Sargon (d. 705 b.c.) and under Cyaxares captured Nineveh in 612 b.c.; they were the first people subject to Assyria to secure their freedom. The dynasty continued...
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Ahasuerus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Xerxes, as used in the Bible. The Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther is probably Xerxes I. That in the Book of Tobit may be Cyaxares I, destroyer of Nineveh. The name of the father of Darius the Mede is also given as Ahasuerus...
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