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  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Atossa or Atoosa (from Old Persian *Utau?a, and Avestan Hutaosa) was an Achaemenid queen and daughter of Cyrus the Great and his wife, Cassdine. She lived from 550 BC to 475 BC and probably was a sister (or half-sister) of the Persian king Cambyses II.

    Atossa married Darius I during 522 BC after he, with the help of the nobleman Otanes, defeated the followers of a man claiming to be Bardiya (Smerdis), the younger brother of Cambyses II.[1]

    Herodotus records in The Histories that Atossa was troubled by a bleeding lump in her breast. She wrapped herself in sheets and sought a self-imposed quarantine. Ultimately, a Greek slave, Democedes, persuaded her to allow him to excise the tumor. [2]

    Xerxes I was the eldest son of Atossa and Darius. Atossa lived to see Xerxes invade Greece. Being a direct descendent of Cyrus the Great, Atossa had a great authority within Achamenian royal house and court. Atossa's special position enabled Xerxes, who was not the eldest son of Darius, to succeed his father.[1]
    Literary references

    Aeschylus included her as a central character in his tragedy The Persians. Atossa is also one of the major characters in the Gore Vidal novel Creation.

    In his history of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee imagines Atossa traveling through time, encountering different diagnoses and treatments for her breast cancer. Atossa becomes emblematic of cancer sufferers through history.
  • A child of Cyrus "de Grote" and Neithiyti van Egypte
  • This information was last updated on December 4, 2012.

Household of Atossa

(1) She is married to Darius I "de Grote" van Phyrgia.

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