Amestris
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
The Histories
Xerxes' queen, who orchestrates the brutal mutilation of Masistes' wife out of jealousy.
Xerxes ' wife, Amestris, wove and gave to him a great gaily-colored mantle, marvellous to see.
Waiting for that day, Amestris then asked of Xerxes that Masistes ' wife should be given to her.
she cut off the woman's breasts and threw them to dogs, and her nose and ears and lips also, and cut out her tongue.
Alcibiades 1
Wife of Xerxes and mother of the Persian king, invoked by Socrates in an imagined speech about Alcibiades's presumption.
So I imagine, if someone should say to the king’s mother Amestris, who was wife of Xerxes, The son of Deinomache intends to challenge your son;