Mandane (مهبانو) — the Greek form of Mandanā — was the **Median princess, daughter of King Astyages of Media** and **mother of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire**. According to Herodotus, **Astyages dreamed that his daughter's offspring would overthrow him** — so he tried to have the infant Cyrus killed. The herdsman Mithridates spared him; Cyrus survived and fulfilled the prophecy by conquering Media.
Featured in Herodotus's *Histories* and Xenophon's *Cyropaedia*.
Mandane reduces to six — the number of Cyrus's mother.