Amastris

Amastris († 284 BC). Daughter of Oxyathres, the brother of Darius III, a Persian nobleman.

Life

Alexander the Great took after his victorious battle of Issus (333 BC ) the family of Darius III. , Including Amastris, caught, he married in 324 BC at the big wedding celebration at Susa with Craterus. After the death of Alexander, many of his comrades were looking for new wives, as well as Craterus, who married for love Phila (322 BC) and Amastris to the tyrant of Heraclea Pontica, Dionysius abdicated. From the marriage of Dionysos and Amastris three children: Klearchos, Oxathres and Amastris.

After Dionysius was 305 died BC, Amastris took over as queen the regency for her eldest son Klearchos. However, they had to acknowledge the supremacy of Antigonus, they shake 302 BC and could marry the Lysimachus. This happy marriage resulted in the birth of a son Alexander, but did not take long for political reasons. After the battle of Ipsos (301 BC) Lysimachus left her to marry Arsinoe II, daughter of Ptolemy I can. By combining ( synoecism ) of the four places Sesamos, Kytoros, Kromna and Tio founded for the second time abandoned Persian Princess 300 BC, the city named after her Amastris (now Amasra ) on the coast of Paphlagonia. There they may have lived and minted coins with the inscription "Queen Amastris ".

When the sons of Amastris were old enough, they took over under the reign of its mother's government, but soon there was between them discord. Supposedly Amastris was 284 BC drowned at the instigation of her sons; this suspicion used in any case Lysimachus, to put to death Clearchus and Oxathres and collect their empire as a province.