Phaidyme

Family: Persian · Role: daughter of Otanes; wife of Cambyses and the Magian · First appears: Book 3 · §65–70

Life events

• Phaidyme confirmed that the Magian had no ears and informed her father.(Book 3 · §65–70)
  • With: Smerdis the Magian
  • “and perceiving not with difficulty but easily that her husband had no ears, so soon as it became day she sent and informed her father of that which had taken place.”

Book 3 · §65–70

• married with Cambyses (son of Cyrus) “Cambyses had taken to wife his daughter, whose name was Phaidyme”
• parent: Otanes “Cambyses had taken to wife his daughter, whose name was Phaidyme”
• married with Smerdis the Magian “and this same daughter the Magian at that time was keeping as his wife and living with her as with all the rest also of the wives of Cambyses.”

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