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ASTYAGES , the last See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Median See also:empire. In the See also:inscriptions of Nabonidus the name is written Ishtuvegu (See also:cylinder from See also:Abu Habba V R 64, See also:col. 1, 32 See also:Annals, published by Pinches, Tr. See also:Soc. Bibl. See also:Arch. vii. col. 2, 2). According to See also:Herodotus, he was the son of See also:Cyaxares and reigned See also:thirty-five years (584—550 B.C.); his wife was Aryenis, the daughter of See also:Alyattes of See also:Lydia (See also:Herod. i. 74). About his reign we know little, as the narrative of Herodotus, which makes See also:Cyrus the See also:grandson of Astyages by his daughter Mandane, is merely a See also:legend; the figure of Harpagus, who as See also:general of the Median See also:army betrays the king to Cyrus, alone seems to contain an See also:historical See also:element, as Harpagus and his See also:family afterwards obtained a high position in the See also:Persian empire. From the inscriptions of Nabonidus we learn that Cyrus, king of Anshan (Susiana), began See also:war against him in 553 B.C.; in 550, when Astyages marched against Cyrus, his troops rebelled, and he was taken prisoner. Then Cyrus occupied and plundered See also:Ecbatana.
The See also:captive king was treated fairly by Cyrus (Herod. i. 130), and according to See also:Ctesias (Pers. 5, cf. See also:Justin i. 6) made See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
satrap of See also:Hyrcania, where he was afterwards slain by Oebares against the will of Cyrus, who gave him a splendid funeral. See also:Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus in their excerpts from See also:Berossus, which See also:Eusebius (Chron. i. pp. 29 and 37) and See also:Syncellus (p. 396) have preserved, give the name Astyages to the Median king who reigned in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the fall of See also:Nineveh (6o6 B.c.), and became See also:father-in-See also:law of See also:Nebuchadrezzar. This is evidently a See also:mistake; the name ought to be Cyaxares (in the fragments of the Jewish See also:history of Alexander Polyhistor, in Euseb. Praep. See also:Eve ix. 39, the name is converted into Astibaras, who, according to the unhistorical See also:list of Ctesias, was the father of Astyages), and there is no See also:reason to invent an earlier king Astyages I., as some modem authors have done.
The Armenian historians render the name Astyages by Ashdahak, i.e. Azhi Dahaka (Zohak), the mythical king of the Iranian epics, who has nothing whatever to do with the historical king of the Medes. (ED.
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