Parmys
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Parmys (Old Persian (H)uparviyā, Elamite Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis),[1] son of Cyrus the Great.[2] She was the grand daughter of Cyrus the Great, and Cassandane.
When Darius the Great (Darius I) seized the Achaemenid throne, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great and later on his granddaughter (Parmida). Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.
Parmida as a word means: "Small paradise. A smart, wise and kind lady from paradise. Daughter of rain (rain bride)."
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- 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", in http://www.livius.org
- Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
Categories:
- 6th-century BC births
- 5th-century BC deaths
- 6th-century BC women
- 5th-century BC women
- Queens of the Achaemenid Empire
- 6th-century BC Iranian people
- 5th-century BC Iranian people
- Achaemenid princesses
- Family of Darius the Great