Kassandane

Kassandane (* before 567 BC ; † March 537 BC ) was the wife of the Persian king Cyrus II.

Life

Kassandane was the daughter of the Achaemenid Pharnaspes and sister of Otanes . She married Cyrus II and had two sons and probably three daughters with him: Cambyses II , Bardiya and Atossa , an unnamed daughter and probably Artystone . Cyrus II felt such a deep love for his wife that after her death he exhorted all subjects to hold funeral services. According to the Nabonaid Chronicle , in Babylon because of the "death of the king's wife" (probably means Kassandane) from March 29 to April 4, 537 BC. A state mourning decreed.

literature

Muhammad Dandamayev: Cassandane. In: Encyclopædia Iranica . Vol. 5 (1992), p. 62
James B. Pritchard : Ancient near Eastern texts (Reprint) (including the Nabonaid Chronicle), Pro Quest 2005, ISBN 0-691-03503-2 .
Adolf Leo Oppenheim : The cuneiform texts (translations by James B. Pritchard Ancient near Eastern texts ), 1970.

Notes and individual references

↑ Date of death according to the cuneiform Nabonaid Chronicle
↑ so W. Hinz, RLA, Vol. 6, p. 402; M. Dandamayev (see lit.), p. 62, allows Kassandane only two daughters.
↑ maybe her name was Roxane
↑ Herodotus 2: 1; 3, 2
↑ Herodotus 2, 1
↑ According to the Nabonaid Chronicle from Adar 27 to Nisan 3 . In the proleptic Julian calendar of 537 BC The 27th Adar fell on April 5th and the beginning of spring on March 28th. In conversion to today's Gregorian calendar, 7 days must therefore be deducted. Calculations according to Jean Meeus: Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 and Ephemeris Tool 4,5 conversion program .

personal data
SURNAME	Kassandane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Daughter of Pharnaspes., Wife of Cyrus II.
DATE OF BIRTH	before 567 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	537 BC Chr.

[1] Date of death according to the cuneiform Nabonaid Chronicle

[2] so W. Hinz, RLA, Vol. 6, p. 402; M. Dandamayev (see lit.), p. 62, allows Kassandane only two daughters.

[3] ybe her name was Roxane

[4] Herodotus 2: 1; 3, 2

[5] Herodotus 2, 1

[6] According to the Nabonaid Chronicle from Adar 27 to Nisan 3 . In the proleptic Julian calendar of 537 BC The 27th Adar fell on April 5th and the beginning of spring on March 28th. In conversion to today's Gregorian calendar, 7 days must therefore be deducted. Calculations according to Jean Meeus: Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 and Ephemeris Tool 4,5 conversion program .