Amestris (daughter of Artaxerxes II)
Amestris (Greek: Άμηστρις, Amēstris, perhaps the same as Άμαστρις, Amāstris, from Old Persian Amāstrī-, "strong woman");[1] 4th-century BC) was an Achaemenid queen, consort of the Persian king Artaxerxes II.
She was the daughter of Artaxerxes II.[2] Her father bethrothed her to Tiribazus. However, he broke the engagement and married his daughter himself.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ electricpulp.com. ""Amestris" in Encyclopedia Iranica". Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (December 15, 1989). "Amestris". Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 9. pp. 935–936.
- ^ Plutarco, Vidas Paralelas, Vida de Artaxerxes (II), 27.4
References
[edit]- Karl Fiehn: Stateira 1). In: Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Vol. III A, 2 (1929), col. 2170–2171.
- Stateira [1]. In: Der Neue Pauly. Vol. 11 (2001), col. 920.
- William Greenwalt: Statira I. In: Women in World History. Vol. 14 (2002), p. 745-746.