Kuaxares II: Perbedaan antara revisi

In a section that is partially defective, the Nabonidus Chronicle reports the death of the "wife of the king". This happened at some time before the end of the month in which the forces of Cyrus captured Babylon. If the king was Cyrus, as seems most probable, then the one who died was his first wife, [[Cassandane]], mother of [[Cambyses II]].{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Cambyses II was old enough to be prince regent when his father entered Babylon. If Cassandane had died at this time, it would shed light on the passage in the ''Cyropaedia'' (8.5.19) where Cyaxares II, maternal uncle of Cyrus, gave his daughter as bride to the recently bereaved Cyrus, with the kingdom of Media as her dowry.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The death of the king's wife in the Nabonidus Chronicle would then explain why Cyrus would take a new queen in his middle years, as stated in the ''Cyropaedia''.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Most historians do not make any connection between the death of the king's wife in the Nabonidus Chronicle and Cyrus's taking a new wife shortly thereafter (''Cyropaedia'') because to do so{{weasel-inline|date=February 2015}} would lend credence to the existence of Cyaxares II.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}<!--definitely need an explicit source for the claim that the motive is "because to do so would lend credence"--> One writer who makes the connection is William Shea.<ref>{{cite journal |first = William H. |last = Shea |title = Darius the Mede in His Persian-Babylonian Setting|journal = Andrews University Seminary Studies| volume = 29 |issue = 3 |date = 1989 |pages = 226–30}}</ref>

 

The ''[[Histories|Histories (Herodotus)]]'' of [[Herodotus]] was written sometime between 450 and 420 BC.<ref>{{cite book| first = John | last = Marincola | title = Greek Historians | location = Oxford| publisher = Oxford Univ. Press | date = 2001 | page = 24}}</ref> Herodotus has no room for Cyaxares II in the ''Histories'', because his narrative has Cyrus leading a successful rebellion against his maternal grandfather, [[Astyages]] king of the Medes. As a consequence,{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} the Medes became "slaves" of the Persians (1.129,130). Herodotus states that Astyages had no male heir (1.109); this may be compared to Xenophon's statement (''Cyropaedia'' 8.5.19) that it was Cyaxares (II), son of Astyages, who had no male heir.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}<!--anything 'may be compared' to anything else - provide a source that makes this specific comparison--> The lack of a male heir is an essential part of the story of Herodotus regarding the birth and upbringing of Cyrus, an account that is universally recognized as an adaptation of widespread myths about rejected sons becoming king.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The animosity between Cyrus and Astyages that led to Cyrus' rebellion is an integral part of that myth.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The rebellion is generally accepted as true by modern historians, as it is supported by other texts such as the Nabonidus Chronicle.

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