Parmys
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Parmys (Old Persian: (H)uparviyā, Elamite: Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis),[1] son of Cyrus the Great.[2]
Once Darius the Great seized the Achaemenid thrones, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great, then later married Parmys. Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.[3]
References
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[edit | edit source]- Herodotus, III, 88; VII, 78
- Persepolis Fortification Tablets (where she is called Uparmiya)
- Brosius, M: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998.
- Lendering, J: "Parmys Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine", in http://www.livius.org
- Persepolis Fortification Archive Project