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Aryenis

Daughter of the Lydian king Alyattes

Field	Value
name	Aryenis
father	Alyattes
spouse	Astyages
issue	Mandane (?)
Amytis (?)
native_lang1	Lydian
native_lang2	Median

Amytis (?) Aryenis (; ) was, according to Herodotus, the daughter of the Lydian king Alyattes and the sister of the Lydian king Croesus.

Name

The name Aryenis comes from the Latin transliteration of the Ancient Greek grc (Αρυηνις), which was itself the Hellenised form of a Lydian name cognate with the Hittite term hit ({{cuneiform|ana|𒂖}}), which meant "free", that is a free person, as opposed to an enslaved or unfree person.

Family

Following the Battle of the Eclipse, she was married to Astyages, son of the Median king Cyaxares as part of a diplomatic marriage to seal a peace treaty between Media and Lydia. Aryenis became the Queen consort of Astyages when he succeeded Cyaxares.

Herodotus does not clearly identify her as the mother of Mandane (the wife of Cambyses I of Anshan) and there is speculation that she may have been born to an earlier wife of Astyages.

Sources

References

[https://www.livius.org/person/alyattes/ Alyattes]. Livius.org. Retrieved 08 May 2015
Weeks, David Michael. (1985). "Hittite Vocabulary:An Anatolian Appendix to Buck's Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages".
Puhvel, Jaan. (1984). "Hittite Etymological Dictionary". [[De Gruyter.
Schmitt, Rüdiger. (1987). "ASTYAGES".
''Histories of Herodotus, Book I, 107-111''.[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Herodotus/Book_1]. Retrieved 06 December 2015.

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