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[[File:Medo-Persia - Achaemid Family Tree - inc Otanes & Cyaxares II.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The Median and Persian Family Tree, showing the intermarriage of the royal houses to create the Medo-Persian Empire ]]
[[File:Medo-Persia - Achaemid Family Tree - inc Otanes & Cyaxares II.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The Median and Persian Family Tree, showing the intermarriage of the royal houses to create the Medo-Persian Empire]]
'''Astyages''', Akkadian '''Ishtumegu''', king of [[Medes|Media]] / of the [[Medes]], son of [[Cyaxares I]]; father of [[Mandane]] (and thereby grandfather to [[Cyrus|Cyrus "the Great"]]); and father to the possible [[Cyaxares II]]. Generally recognised as the last king of said empire ruling from 585<small>BC</small> to 550<small>BC</small> before being deposed by [[Cyrus]]. Meanwhile debate does exist that the throne passed to the alleged [[Cyaxares II]] before passing to the Persian [[Cyrus]].
'''Astyages''', Akkadian '''Ishtumegu''', king of [[Medes|Media]] / of the [[Medes]], son of [[Cyaxares I]]; father of [[Mandane]] (and thereby grandfather to [[Cyrus|Cyrus "the Great"]]); and father to the possible [[Cyaxares II]]. Generally recognised as the last king of said empire ruling from 585<small>BC</small> to 550<small>BC</small> before being deposed by [[Cyrus]]. Meanwhile, debate does exist that the throne passed to the alleged [[Cyaxares II]] before passing to the Persian [[Cyrus]].
=== Arguments for Succession to Cyaxares II ===
=== Arguments for Succession to Cyaxares II ===
The name [[Cyaxares II]] comes to us predominantly from [[Xenophon|Xenophon's]] [[Cyropaedia|''Cyropaedia'']] who allegedly campaigned as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger against his brother [[Artaxerxes II]] placing him some 150 years from the original events in the life of [[Cyrus the Great]]. Yet this volume was among Alexander the Great's most prized possessions and studied it regularly. In the which [[Xenophon]] recorded a detailed military history of Cyrus' doings in the which ''Astyages'' dies of old age and passes the throne to his son [[Cyaxares II|Cyaxares]].
The name [[Cyaxares II]] comes to us predominantly from [[Xenophon|Xenophon's]] ''[[Cyropaedia]]'' who allegedly campaigned as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger against his brother [[Artaxerxes II]] placing him some 150 years from the original events in the life of [[Cyrus the Great]]. Yet this volume was among Alexander the Great's most prized possessions and studied it regularly. In the which [[Xenophon]] recorded a detailed military history of Cyrus' doings in the which ''Astyages'' dies of old age and passes the throne to his son [[Cyaxares II|Cyaxares]].
The name ''Cyaxares'' also appears twice on the [[Behistun (inscription)|Behistun Inscription]] as two of the nine rebels conquered by [[Darius I]] claimed to be "of Cyaxares". The only question remaining since the inscription's first translation has been: Is this a reference to [[Cyaxares I|Cyaxares]] the father of ''Astyages'' or to [[Cyaxares II|Cyaxares]] the son of Astyages?
The name ''Cyaxares'' also appears twice on the [[Behistun (inscription)|Behistun Inscription]] as two of the nine rebels conquered by [[Darius I]] claimed to be "of Cyaxares". The only question remaining since the inscription's first translation has been: Is this a reference to [[Cyaxares I|Cyaxares]] the father of ''Astyages'' or to [[Cyaxares II|Cyaxares]] the son of Astyages?