Parmys

{{Short description|Persian princess}}

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Parmys (Old Persian: (H)uparviyā, Elamite: Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis),{{Cite book|last=Brosius|first=Maria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Afl-AgAAQBAJ|title=The Persians|date=2006-04-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-35984-4|pages=18|language=en}} son of Cyrus the Great.Herodotus, Histories, book 3, chapter 88, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.88.3 section 3].

Once Darius the Great seized the Achaemenid thrones, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great, then later married Parmys. Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.{{Cite web |title=Parmys - Livius |url=https://www.livius.org/articles/person/parmys/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=www.livius.org}}

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Sources

  • Herodotus, III, 88; VII, 78
  • Persepolis Fortification Tablets (where she is called Uparmiya)
  • Brosius, M: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998.
  • Lendering, J: "[https://www.livius.org/pan-paz/parmys/parmys.html Parmys] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014144745/http://www.livius.org/pan-paz/parmys/parmys.html |date=2012-10-14 }}", in http://www.livius.org
  • [http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archive Project]

Category:6th-century BC births

Category:5th-century BC deaths

Category:6th-century BC women

Category:5th-century BC women

Category:Queens consort of the Achaemenid Empire

Category:6th-century BC Iranian people

Category:5th-century BC Iranian people

Category:Achaemenid princesses

Category:Family of Darius the Great