CASSANDANE was the wife of Cyrus II (Kourosh the Great), an Achaemenian, sister of Otanes and daughter of Pharnaspes.
She bore four children: Cambyses II, Smerdis (see bardiya), Atossa, and an unnamed daughter (see Herodotus, 2.1; 3.2, 3).
According to Herodotus (2.1), Cyrus loved her dearly and, when she died, ordered all the subjects of his empire to observe “a great mourning.”
There is a report in the Chronicle of Nabonidus (previous Babylonian king, son of Nebuchadnezzar), that, when “the king’s wife died,” there was public mourning in Babylonia lasting from 27 Adar to 3 Nisan, that is, 21-26 March 538
(III.23; Grayson, p. 111); very probably it was the death of Cassandane that was being mourned.
She bore four children: Cambyses II, Smerdis (see bardiya), Atossa, and an unnamed daughter (see Herodotus, 2.1; 3.2, 3).
According to Herodotus (2.1), Cyrus loved her dearly and, when she died, ordered all the subjects of his empire to observe “a great mourning.”
There is a report in the Chronicle of Nabonidus (previous Babylonian king, son of Nebuchadnezzar), that, when “the king’s wife died,” there was public mourning in Babylonia lasting from 27 Adar to 3 Nisan, that is, 21-26 March 538
(III.23; Grayson, p. 111); very probably it was the death of Cassandane that was being mourned.
CASSANDANE was the wife of Cyrus II (Kourosh the Great), an Achaemenian, sister of Otanes and daughter of Pharnaspes.
She bore four children: Cambyses II, Smerdis (see bardiya), Atossa, and an unnamed daughter (see Herodotus, 2.1; 3.2, 3).
According to Herodotus (2.1), Cyrus loved her dearly and, when she died, ordered all the subjects of his empire to observe “a great mourning.”
There is a report in the Chronicle of Nabonidus (previous Babylonian king, son of Nebuchadnezzar), that, when “the king’s wife died,” there was public mourning in Babylonia lasting from 27 Adar to 3 Nisan, that is, 21-26 March 538
(III.23; Grayson, p. 111); very probably it was the death of Cassandane that was being mourned.
She bore four children: Cambyses II, Smerdis (see bardiya), Atossa, and an unnamed daughter (see Herodotus, 2.1; 3.2, 3).
According to Herodotus (2.1), Cyrus loved her dearly and, when she died, ordered all the subjects of his empire to observe “a great mourning.”
There is a report in the Chronicle of Nabonidus (previous Babylonian king, son of Nebuchadnezzar), that, when “the king’s wife died,” there was public mourning in Babylonia lasting from 27 Adar to 3 Nisan, that is, 21-26 March 538
(III.23; Grayson, p. 111); very probably it was the death of Cassandane that was being mourned.
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