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[[File:Medo-Persia - Achaemid Family Tree - inc Otanes & Cyaxares II.PNG|450px|thumb|right| The Achaemid Family Tree showing the merging of the royal houses of the Medes and the Persians to create the Medo-Persian Empire.]]
'''Darius the Mede''' is a character appearing thrice in the biblical [[Book of Daniel]]. Meanwhile the exact identity of ''Darius the Mede'' remains the subject of heated debate representing "the last great hurdle to the contextually historical authenticity of book": leading skeptics to claim ''Darius the Mede'' is nothing more than an easily dismissed fictional character, while reversely the class of "historical harmonizers" suggest that ''Darius the Mede'' is simply another name for an existing historical figure which is debated, but favours [[Cyaxares II]].
'''Darius the Mede''' is a character appearing thrice in the biblical [[Book of Daniel]]. Meanwhile the exact identity of ''Darius the Mede'' remains the subject of heated debate representing "the last great hurdle to the contextually historical authenticity of book": leading skeptics to claim ''Darius the Mede'' is nothing more than an easily dismissed fictional character, while reversely the class of "historical harmonizers" suggest that ''Darius the Mede'' is simply another name for an existing historical figure which is debated, but favours [[Cyaxares II]].
As a further complication, since the only extant clay tablets (the [[Uruk King List]] and [[Ptolemy's Canon]]) ''seem'' to support the direct passage of power from [[Astyages]] to [[Cyrus the Great|Cyrus II]]. Yet these lists are commonly already known to not be perfect which reduces their academic value to that of a guide only.
As a further complication, since the only extant clay tablets (the [[Uruk King List]] and [[Ptolemy's Canon]]) ''seem'' to support the direct passage of power from [[Astyages]] to [[Cyrus the Great|Cyrus II]]. Yet these lists are commonly already known to not be perfect which reduces their academic value to that of a guide only.
Meanwhile the most authoritative [[Behistun (inscription)|Behistun Inscription]] of [[Darius I]] does reference "Cyaxares" twice, but it remains questionable if these refer to [[Astyages]] father [[Cyaxares I]] or [[Xenophon|Xenophon's]] account of [[Astyages]] son [[Cyaxares II]]
Meanwhile the most authoritative document in existence being the billboard styled [[Behistun (inscription)|Behistun Inscription]] of [[Darius I]] does reference "Cyaxares" twice. But it remains questionable if these references refer to [[Astyages]] father [[Cyaxares I]] or to [[Cyaxares II]] as presented in [[Xenophon|Xenophon's]] account. Yet these imposters to the throne as presented in the inscription, claim their legitimacy by being "of the household of ''Cyaxares''" and not [[Astyages]]: therefore any claim to the purple based on being [[Cyaxares I|Cyaxares I's]] kin would be far weaker claim by two generations than a claim based on being kin to [[Cyaxares II]].
Therefore the academic community remains divided.
Therefore the academic community remains divided.
We shall now examine the different positions:
We shall now examine the different positions:
==Arguments for Fictional==
==Arguments for Fictional==