Artembares

Artembares () was a Median man of noble rank who lived around the 6th century BCE. His son, according to a story about the youth of Cyrus the Great, was one of the playmates of Cyrus, who at the time was presenting himself as if he were the lowly son of a cowherd.

After a disagreement, Cyrus had some other boys seize the son while he whipped him. Artembares, indignant at the treatment of his child by a child of low birth, complained to king Astyages. This is how it was discovered that Cyrus was the son of Mandane and the grandson of Astyages.