Detail from the church of Lambrechtshagen, Germany, 1759: Daniel in the lions' den with Darius the Mede above.
Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and there is no space in the historical timeline between those two verified kings.[1]
Most scholars view this Darius as a literary fiction, but some have tried to harmonize the Book of Daniel with history by identifying him with various known figures, notably Cyrus, Cyaxares, or Gobryas, the general who was first to enter Babylon when it fell to the Persians in 539 BCE.[2]
DariustheMede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and...
Darius (praetorian prefect), Praetorian prefect of the East in 436 to 437 AD Darius I of Media Atropatene Darius II of Persis DariustheMedeDarius of...
to the original Douay-Rheims Bible, DariustheMede is another name for Astyages. The contemporary Chronicle of Nabonidus refers to the mutiny on the battlefield...
identification of DariustheMede in the Book of Daniel with Cyrus the Great. Daniel 6:28 says "So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign...
TheMedes /ˈmiːdz/ (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭 Māda-; Akkadian: mat Mādāya, mat Mātāya; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι Mēdoi; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people...
conqueror of Babylon, 539 BC. DariustheMede: No such person is known to history (see Levine, 2010, p. 1245, footnote 31). "Darius" is in any case a Persian...
view DariustheMede as a literary fiction, or possibly a conflation of Dariusthe Great with prophecies about theMedes. In some versions of the deuterocanonical...
of theMedes whose reign is described by the Greek historian Xenophon. Some theories have equated this figure with the "DariustheMede" named in the Book...
Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede" (Daniel 9:1), later referred to in the Book of Daniel as "DariustheMede" (e.g. Daniel 11:1); however, no such...
Cyaxarēs) was the third king of theMedes. Cyaxares ascended to the throne in 625 BCE, after his father Phraortes lost his life in a battle against the Assyrians...
control." Iran portal Cyrus the Great in the Quran DariustheMede Ezra 1 Briant, P., From Cyrus to Alexander: a History of the Persian Empire, (Trans. version)...
Deioces to become the capital of the Median kingdom. It is known from the Assyrian texts is that from the 9th to 7th century BC, theMedes had not been able...
called DariustheMede, who supposedly conquered Babylon, but this figure is unknown in other historical sources. It is highly probable that the author...
Construction works continued under Darius I's son, Xerxes, and to a lesser extent, Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC) and Darius II (423–404 BC). Artaxerxes II (404–358 BC)...
Belshazzar… was slain”; (ibid. 6:1) “And DariustheMede acquired the kingdom.” Isaiah 13:22 " and her days The days of her flourishing shall not be extended...
in the kingdom; [and] that very night Belshazzar the Chaldean (Babylonian) king was killed, and DariustheMede received the kingdom." The phrase the writing...
information relating to Jewish and Persian history such as the identification of DariustheMede as the uncle and father-in-law of Cyrus. A brief Persian account...
Da-ti-ya) was a Median noble and admiral who served the Persian Empire during the reign of Dariusthe Great. He was familiar with Greek affairs and maintained...
Babylon. She was the daughter of the Median king Cyaxares, and the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II. The female name Amytis is the Latinised form of the Greek name...
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