Artakama
Artakama or Artacama (; fl. 324 BC) was a Persian noblewoman and the second wife of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and the first Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Person
- Born
- 0350-00-00
- Died
- 0400-00-00
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Key dates
- Died
- 400 BCE
- Born
- 350 BCE
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Phrygia
- Spouse
- Ptolemy I Soter
- Father
- Artabazos II of Phrygia
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Artakama or Artacama (; fl. 324 BC) was a Persian noblewoman and the second wife of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and the first Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
==Biography== Artakama (or as Plutarch calls her Apama Eum. 18.1) was a daughter of Artabazus of Phrygia, a grandson of king Artaxerxes II and queen Strateira. Her father was a Satrap of Dascylium under Artaxerxes III and Darius III, and a Satrap of Bactria under Alexander. Her mother was most likely the only known wife of Artabazus, an anonymous sister of the Rhodian generals Memnon and Mentor, who were in Persian service in the late 340 BCs and the 330 BCs.