the ledger of connections
The Connections of Astyages
The fourth and last king of the Medes (585–550 BC) Every person recorded alongside Astyages in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Astyages in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Cyaxares
- Spouses
- Aryenis
- Children
- Mandane of Media, Amytis
- Siblings
- Amytis of Media
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 700 BCE to 600 BCE.
Ancient era
Laozi
604 BCE – c. 500 BCE
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
Ancient era
Zoroaster
628 BCE – 551 BCE
Founder of Zoroastrianism
Ancient era
Nebuchadnezzar II
642 BCE – 561 BCE
King of Babylon
Ancient era
Cyrus the Great
600 BCE – 530 BCE
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)
Ancient era
Thales of Miletus
c. 650 BCE – 548 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
Ancient era
Sappho
c. 650 BCE – c. 550 BCE
Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
Ancient era
Aesop
620 BCE – 564 BCE
Ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)
Ancient era
Sennacherib
745 BCE – 681 BCE
King of Assyria
Ancient era
Esarhaddon
c. 800 BCE – 669 BCE
King of Assyria (8th cenutury BCE – 669 BCE)
Ancient era
Naqia
c. 800 BCE – 668 BCE
Queen mother
Ancient era
Nabonidus
615 BCE – 538 BCE
King of Babylon
Ancient era
Taharqa
c. 720 BCE – 664 BCE
Egyptian Pharaoh of the 25th dynasty