Amastris (ruler of Heraclea)

Amastris (in Greek Aμαστρις; killed 288 BC), also called Amastrine, was the daughter of Oxyartes, the brother of Darius III, was given by Alexander the Great in marriage to Craterus.(refactored from arr_7.4) But Craterus preferred to her Phila, the daughter of Antipater, so Amastris married Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica, in Bithynia, 322 BC. After the death of Dionysius, in 306 BC, who left her guardian of their children, Clearchus, Oxyathres, and Amastris, she married Lysimachus, 302 BC. Lysimachns, however, abandoned her shortly afterwards, and married Arsinoe, the daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, future king of Egypt; whereupon Amastris retired to Heraclea, which she governed in her own right. She also founded a city, called after her own name Amastris, on the sea-coast of Paphlagonia. She was drowned by her two sons about 288 BC.(refactored from memn_4_5_diod_20.109)

References

• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Amastris (3)", Boston, (1867)

Notes

Template:Ent Arrian, Anabasis, vii. 4 Template:Ent Memnon, History of Eraclea, 4, 5; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xx. 109

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