Amestris (daughter of Artaxerxes II) explained

Amestris (el|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

1. Web site: "Amestris" in Encyclopedia Iranica. electricpulp.com. 9 September 2014.
2. Web site: Schmitt. Rüdiger. December 15, 1989. Amestris. Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 9. 935–936.
3. Plutarco, Vidas Paralelas, Vida de Artaxerxes (II), 27.4

References

• 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.