Atossa

Family: Persian · Role: daughter and wife of Artaxerxes · First appears: Artaxerxes

Life events

• Parysatis persuaded Artaxerxes to marry Atossa and declare her his lawful wife.(Artaxerxes)
  • With: Parysatis Artaxerxes
  • “In fine, she persuaded him to marry her and declare her to be his lawful wife, overriding all the principles and the laws by which the Greeks hold themselves bound, and regarding himself as divinely appointed for a law to the Persians, and the supreme arbitrator of good and evil.”

Artaxerxes

• married with Artaxerxes “In fine, she persuaded him to marry her and declare her to be his lawful wife”
• parent: Artaxerxes “She perceived he was desperately in love with Atossa, one of his own two daughters”
• siblings with Amestris “Atossa, one of his own two daughters, and that he concealed and checked his passion chiefly for fear of herself”
• courtship with Ochus “For he flattered her with the thoughts of being his wife and partner in the kingdom after the death of Artaxerxes.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.