Apama

Apame (also Apama ) was the first wife of Seleucus I Nicator, the founder of the Seleucid Empire.

Apame was a daughter of the Bactrian princes Spitamenes which the Great had been killed in battle against Alexander. In the course of the marriage policy of Alexander was Apame BC married at the mass wedding at Susa 324 with its general Seleucus. Their son was the heir Antiochus I, maybe Achaeus the Elder. They also probably had two daughters, Apame and Laodice.

Apame was next Laodike the most common female first name in the dynasty. Several cities have been named after her, including Apamea on the Orontes Apamea in Phrygia and.

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• Arrian: Anabasis Alexandrou 7,4,4.
• Appian: Syriake 37
• John Malalas