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

Once Darius the Great seized the Achaemenid thrones, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great, then later married Parmys. Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.³

References

Brosius, Maria (2006-04-18). The Persians. Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-134-35984-4.
Herodotus, Histories, book 3, chapter 88, section 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

[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.

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