Tomyris
Queen of the Massagetae (fl. 6. century BCE) · Models · Lived 600 BC to 600 BC · aged 0
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Something wrong?A 6th-century BC queen who beheaded an empire. Tomyris led the Massagetae against Cyrus the Great's invasion, killed him in battle, and - by one account - dropped his severed head into a skin of blood. Renaissance Europe couldn't look away.
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Didon, Tomyris, Semiramis, and Zenobie, from 'The game of queens' (Le jeu des Reines renommées) MET DP833198
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Queen Tomyris learns that her son Spargapises has been taken alive by Cyrus, by Jan Moy (1535-1550)In their orbit
Child: SpargapisesAbout this person
Tomyris ruled the Massagetae, a nomadic people, when Cyrus the Great of Persia pushed into her territory in 530 BC. Herodotus is the lone ancient source: he writes that she commanded her forces in defense, routed the Achaemenid army, and left Cyrus dead on the field. One version of the story has her mutilating his corpse, a gesture of contempt that became her signature in later retellings. By the Renaissance she'd become a fixture of the "Power of Women" genre - painters returned again and again to the image of a queen standing over the severed head of the man who thought he could take her land. She exists entirely within Herodotus; other historians of the period don't mention her at all.
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