Cambyses I.

Cambyses I ( Persian کمبوجیه Kambūdschīye [ kʲæmbuːʤiɛ ], Old Persian : Kambūdschiya) was an old Persian king from the dynasty of Achaemenids in the 6th century BC.

Life

Cambyses ruled after the death of his father Cyrus I from about 600 BC. BC to 559 BC As a politically independent king of Anschan and was a member of the Confederate community of states, which was probably led by the Meder Kyaxares II and then by Astyages . This results from the cylinder inscription of his son Cyrus II , who founded the ancient Persian empire (see Achaemenid Empire ). Cyrus II also describes himself as the son of Cambyses on building inscriptions from Uruk . According to some assumptions, the latter could also have been a younger brother of the Arukku .

There are no sources from his own time about the activities of Cambyses. According to the report of the Greek historian Herodotus , Astyages married his daughter Mandane to Cambyses I, and she was the mother of Cyrus II. However, there is no confirmation of this in the cuneiform sources. Ktesias of Knidos even denies - certainly wrongly - the descent of Cyrus II from Cambyses; his own genealogical information is classified as completely untrustworthy by research. Xenophon describes in his novel Education of Cyrus Cambyses as king of the Persians ; this statement is more correct than that of Herodotus, who gives him only a middle position in the Persian hierarchy.

family tree

Achaimenes 1st King, Regent of Persia

Teispes 2nd King, Regent of Persia

Ariaramna I. 3rd King, Regent of Persis

Cyrus I. 4th King, Regent of Anzhan

Arshama I. Regional Regent

Cambyses I. 5th King, Regent of Anjan

Hystaspes prince

Cyrus II. 6th King, Regent of Persia

Dareios I. 9th King, Regent of Persia

Cambyses II. 7th King, Regent of Persia

Bardiya 8th King, Regent of Persia (or Gaumata as Smerdis)

Artystone princess

Atossa princess

Roxane princess

Xerxes I. 10th King, Regent of Persia

Artaxerxes I. 11th King, Regent of Persia

Remarks

1. ↑ Herodotus 1, 107f.
2. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos in Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 688, F 9, 1.
3. ↑ Xenophon , Education of Cyrus 1, 2, 1.

literature

• Johannes Madey:  Kambyses I. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 785-786. ( fully online, as of March 27, 2013 ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

• CAMBYSES . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
• ARUKKU . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)

predecessor	Office	successor
Cyrus I.	Persian king 600–559 BC Chr.	Cyrus II