Person
Tomyris
queen of the Massagetae in Herodotus's account of Cyrus's last war
The Massagetae queen who, in Herodotus, defeated and killed Cyrus the Great; a single-source figure of the Herodotean tradition, denied by the rival accounts of Cyrus's death and shaped by the Amazon and hubris–nemesis topoi.
- Date
- fl. c. 530 BCE
- Other names
- Tomyris · Thomyris
- Groups
- Contested identities
- Record status
- Disputed
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- Herodotus in Tomyris
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