Children Mandane of Media Grandchild Cyrus the Great | Siblings Croesus Nephew Atys | |
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Great grandchildren Cambyses II, Atossa, Artystone, Bardiya, Roxane Similar |
Aryenis of Lydia was, according to Herodotus, the daughter of King Alyattes of Lydia and the sister of King Croesus of Lydia.
Family
Aryenis was also the Queen consort of Astyages, King of Media. She was given in marriage to Astyages to seal a treaty between Cyaxares of Media and Alyattes II of Lydia, following the Battle of the Eclipse.
Herodotus does not clearly identified her as the mother of Mandane and there is speculation that Mandane (the wife of Cambyses I of Anshan) may have been born to an earlier wife of Astyages.
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