Amestris
Family: Persian · Role: wife of Xerxes · First appears: Book 7 · §57–69
Life events
- Amestris buried fourteen Persian children alive as an offering for her own life.(Book 7 · §107–118)
- With: Xerxes
- “I am informed that Amestris also, the wife of Xerxes, when she had grown old, made return for her own life to the god who is said to be beneath the earth by burying twice seven children of Persians who were men of renown.”
- Amestris learned that Artaÿnte had received Xerxes’s mantle.(Book 9 · §103–110)
Book 7 · §57–69
- parent: Otanes “and they acknowledged as their commander Otanes the father of Amestris the wife of Xerxes.”
- married with Xerxes “and they acknowledged as their commander Otanes the father of Amestris the wife of Xerxes.”
Book 7 · §107–118
- married with Xerxes “Amestris also, the wife of Xerxes”
Book 9 · §103–110
- married with Xerxes “Amestris the wife of Xerxes had woven a mantle, large and of various work and a sight worthy to be seen”
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