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Athenais Philostorgos I

Athenais Philostorgos I, her surname can be spelt as Philostorgus (, meaning Athenais the loving one, flourished 1st century BC) was a Queen of Cappadocia.

Athenais was a Greek noblewoman of obscure origins. She was the wife of the Cappadocian Persian nobleman and King Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios and through her marriage became a Queen of Cappadocia. Ariobarzanes I reigned as King of Cappadocia from 95 to 63/62 BC.

It appears when Ariobarzanes I reigned as King he married Athenais as his Queen. Little is known on how she reigned as Queen and her relationship with her family. Athenais bore Ariobarzanes I two children: a son Ariobarzanes II Philopator who later succeeded his father as King and a daughter, Isias Philostorgos who later married the King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene.

Athenais is also known through a surviving honorific inscription dedicated to her son in Athens, Greece dating from the mid 1st century BC.

King Ariobarzanes Philopator, son of King<br>Ariobarzanes Philoromaios and of Queen<br>Athenais Philostorgos, (is honored by) those who had been commissioned<br>by him for the construction of the Odeion,<br>Gaius and Marcus Stallius, sons of Gaius, and<br>Menalippos, as their benefactor.

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  • https://web.archive.org/web/20131102190417/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0412.html
  • Sherk, R. K. Rome and the Greek East to the death of Augustus, Cambridge University Press, 1984