Parmys

Parmys (Old Persian: (H)uparviyā, Elamite: Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis),^[1] son of Cyrus the Great.^[2]

When Darius the Great seized the Achaemenid throne, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great and later with Parmys. Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.^[3]

References

1. Brosius, Maria (2006-04-18). The Persians. Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-134-35984-4.
2. Herodotus, Histories, book 3, chapter 88, section 3.
3. "Parmys - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2024-06-23.

Sources

• Herodotus, III, 88; VII, 78
• Persepolis Fortification Tablets (where she is called Uparmiya)
• Brosius, M: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998.
• Lendering, J: "Parmys Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine", in http://www.livius.org
• Persepolis Fortification Archive Project