Amestris (daughter of Artaxerxes II)

Amestris (, Amēstris, perhaps the same as Άμαστρις, Amāstris, from Old Persian Amāstrī-, "strong woman"); 4th-century BC) was an Achaemenid queen, consort of the Persian king Artaxerxes II.

She was the daughter of Artaxerxes II. Her father bethrothed her to Tiribazus. However, he broke the engagement and married his daughter himself.

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• 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.