Cassandane

Cassandane or Cassandana (; died 538 BC) was an Achaemenian queen and the wife of king Cyrus the Great, the mother of Cambyses II and Atossa and the grandmother of Xerxes I.

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Royalty.name: Cassandane
Royalty.image: Image from page 480 of "Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map" (1906) (14595592850).jpg
Royalty.caption: An old image of a possible tomb of Cassandane in Pasargad Archaeological Site Suleiman Prison (Pasargad) 1906 image taken from the book Persia past and present by AV Williams Jackson (1906)
Royalty.succession: Queen consort of the Achaemenid Empire
Royalty.consort: yes
Royalty.reign: 559–538 BC
Royalty.coronation: 559 BC
Royalty.successor: Atossa
Royalty.death_date: 538 BC
Royalty.burial_place: Pasargad
Royalty.spouse: Cyrus the Great

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Cassandane or Cassandana (; died 538 BC) was an Achaemenian queen and the wife of king Cyrus the Great, the mother of Cambyses II and Atossa and the grandmother of Xerxes I.

She was a daughter of Pharnaspes. She had four children with Cyrus: Cambyses II, who succeeded his father and conquered Egypt; Smerdis (Bardiya), who also reigned as the king of Persia for a short time; a daughter named Atossa, who later wed Darius the Great; and another daughter named Roxana.