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    Who was Cyaxares?
    Cyaxares (Persian Uvakhšatara, Akkadian Umakištar): name of a king of the Medes, who may have reigned from c.625 to c.585. The only account of the reign of Cyaxares can be found in the first book of the Histories by the Greek researcher Herodotus (c.480-c.429). He writes that the Median leader Phraortes

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    Was Cyaxares a king?
    This Cyaxares was also tried to be identified with Deioces (Assyrian Daiukku), whose name is also mentioned in another inscription of Sargon II as the name of a captured tribal king or judge of the Medes or Manneans, and sometimes with the son of Deioces Phraortes.

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    When did Cyaxares reign?
    The only historically attested Median king named Cyaxares is the one whom Herodotus (1.73, 1.103-07) mentioned as a son of Phraortes and father of the last Median king, Astyages. If the eclipse of the sun mentioned by Herodotus (1.74) was that of 585, then Cyaxares reigned until 585/4 b.c.e.

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    Was Cyaxares a phantom?
    The supposed Cyaxares “I,” proposed as a king of Media in the late 8th and early 7th centuries, is thus a phantom (Grantovskiĭ, pp. 249ff., 316). The only historically attested Median king named Cyaxares is the one whom Herodotus (1.73, 1.103-07) mentioned as a son of Phraortes and father of the last Median king, Astyages.

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    WEBCyaxares (Persian Uvakhšatara, Akkadian Umakištar): name of a king of the Medes, who may have reigned from c.625 to c.585. The only account of the reign of Cyaxares can be found in the first book of the Histories by …

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    WEBCyaxares (625–585 BC) was one of the most famous and powerful kings of Media and responsible for helping to bring down the regional superpower Assyria. He is most well known for organizing all of the tribes of the …

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