Artazostre

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Artazostre or Artozostre ( old Persian Arta-zausri ) was a daughter of Dareios I.

Herodotus (6.43) reports that Artazostre was married to Mardonios , the son of Gobryas , after he became general of the Persian army in Thrace and Macedonia (493/492 BC).

Artazostre was not mentioned in the Persian cuneiform texts . However, official documents with her name were found in Persepolis . It is also mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from 498 BC. As the wife of Mardonios, daughter of a king . She is said to have undertaken a trip with Gobryas and a woman named Aradušnamuya / Ardušnamuya , for which the Persian king approved routes. Mardonios may have had a son named Artontes with Artazostre .

literature

  • Heidemarie Koch : Achaemenid Studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03328-2
  • Josef Wiesehöfer : Ancient Persia 550 BC Chr to 650 AD Patmos, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-491-96151-3
  • M. Brosius: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998.
  • D. Lewis: Persians in Herodotus. In: Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History. Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 345-362

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SURNAME Artazostre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artozostre; Arta-zausri (old Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Darius I.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.