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Amytis of Media (c. 630-565 BCE; Median: *ᴴumati; Ancient Greek: Ancient Greek: Αμυτις, romanized: Amutis; Latin: Amytis) was a queen of Babylon, wife of Nebuchadnezzar II and daughter of the Median king Cyaxares.
Amitis or Amytis may refer to: Amytis of Media ( c. 630–565 BCE), daughter of Cyaxares and wife of Nebuchadnezzar. Amytis (daughter of Astyages) (6th century BCE), daughter of Astyages and wife of Cyrus II.
Amytis (Old Persian: *ᴴumati; Ancient Greek: Αμυτις Amutis; Latin: Amytis) was an Achaemenid princess, daughter of king Xerxes I and queen Amestris, and sister of king Artaxerxes I.
Dec 15, 1989 · AMYTIS, Median and Persian female name, attested only in the Greek form Ámytis, which perhaps may reflect (with vowel metathesis) an old Persian *Umati—equivalent to Avestan humaiti—“having good thought” (see W. Eilers, Semiramis, Vienna, 1971, pp. 17 and 57, n. 101).
Feb 14, 2024 · Amytis Shahbanu was the first Persian Queen of the Achaemenid dynasty. She was the daughter of the last Median king, Astyages. King Astyages was defeated by his grandson, King Cyrus the Great.
Feb 5, 2024 · She was the aunt of Queen Mandana of Anshan and Amytis Shahbanu, the Queen of Persia. Therefore, Queen Amytis of Babylon was the great-aunt of King Cyrus the Great, who later overthrew her Chaldean Dynasty and founded the Achaemenid Dynasty.
Nov 19, 2016 · Amytis was the daughter of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BC), the sister of Artaxerxes I (r. 465-424 BC) and the wife of the Persian satrap and general Megabyzus. For the purposes of fiction, I’ve given her the dates 489-439 BC.
Jan 28, 2019 · The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in the city of Babylon for his wife, Amytis.
Nov 7, 2018 · Nebuchadnezzar married Amytis of Media (l. 630-565 BCE) and so secured an alliance between the Medes and the Babylonians (Amytis being the daughter or perhaps granddaughter of Cyaxares, King of the Medes) and, according to some sources, had the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built for her to remind her of her homeland in Persia.
May 23, 2023 · The most well-known narrative of the Hanging Gardens concerns the legendary King Nebuchadnezzar and queen Amytis, who moved from the country of Media, which is roughly equivalent to modern-day Kurdistan.
