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search Reign 585 BCE- 550 BCE (according to Herodotus)
Birthplace Ecbatana Predecessor Cyaxares the Great Successor
Cyrus the Great Consort Aryenis of Lydia Dynasty Median Dynasty
Religious beliefs Zoroastrianism  Astyages (spelled by Herodotus
as Ἀστυάγης - Astyages; by Ctesias as Astyigas; by Diodorus as
Aspadas; Akkadian: Ištumegu) was the last king of the Median
Empire, r. 585 BCE-550 BCE, the son of Cyaxares; he was
dethroned in 550 BCE by his own grandson, Cyrus the Great. His
name derives from the Old Iranian Rishti Vaiga, which means
"swinging the spear, lance-hurler."[1]   The Median Empire
during both Cyaxares the Great, and Astyages  Astyages succeeded
his father in 585 BCE, following the Battle of Halys,[2] which
ended a five-year war between the Lydians and the Medes. He
inherited a large empire, ruled in alliance with his two
brothers-in-law, Croesus of Lydia and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
whose wife, Amytis, Astyages' sister, was the qu