King's daughter
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Anabasis
The daughter of the Persian King, mentioned through her marriage to Orontas.
In the course of this stage Tissaphernes made his appearance, having under his command the cavalry which he had himself brought with him, the troops of Orontas, who was married to the King’s daughter, the barbarians whom Cyrus had brought with him on his upward march, and those with whom the King’s brother had come to the aid of the King;
Hellenica
Unnamed daughter of the Persian King married by Pharnabazus.
And after the twenty ships from Syracuse had come and joined Antalcidas, and the ships from all that part of Ionia of which Tiribazus was master had also come, and more still had been manned from the territory of Ariobarzanes — for Antalcidas was an old friend of Ariobarzanes, and Pharnabazus had at this time gone up to the capital in response to a summons, this being the occasion when he married …