Artakama
Artakama
Biography
Artakama (or as Plutarch calls her Apama Eum. 18.1) was a daughter of
Artakama married Ptolemy (then a general) in April 324 BC at a marriage festival in the city of Susa, as ordered by Alexander the Great. Many of the Macedonian and other Greek officers took Persian wives shortly afterward. Artakama was not mentioned in historical texts again, probably because Ptolemy quietly discarded her when he left Babylon for Egypt after Alexander's death. If so, his action was a contrast to that of his friend Seleucus, whose Persian wife, Apama, married also on that occasion, remained with him permanently. Seleucus and Apama became the ancestors of the kings of the Seleucid dynasty and, through a future dynastic marriage, of the last rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty.[5] Artakama is called Apama by Plutarch, but this is likely an error.
Ptolemy had no known children by Artakama.
References
- ^ Artakama Archived November 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine by Chris Bennett. Retrieved October 2010
- ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Artacama
- ISBN 0-500-05128-3
- ^ Artabazus Archived 2013-06-08 at the Wayback Machine on www.livius.com
- ^ Translation of Anabasis Archived 2016-08-26 at the Wayback Machine by the Greek author Arrian of Nicomedia at www.livius.com