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ARYENIS (Ἀρύηνις, ἡ)
ОглавлениеCHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
Daughter of the Lydian king ALYATTES, given in MARRIAGE to the Median king ASTYAGES in order to solidify the peace treaty agreed to by the two kingdoms c. 585 BCE (1.74.4; see also schol. Pl. Resp. 566c). Aryenis was thus the sister of the last king of LYDIA, CROESUS, and probably the grandmother (if MANDANE was her daughter) of the first king of PERSIA, CYRUS (II). “Aryenis” may in fact have been a Median title given to her upon her marriage, from OP *ahurānī‐, “spouse of the king” (Pirart 2002, 122).
SEE ALSO: Medes
