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The female name Amytis is the Latinised form of the Greek name Amutis (Αμυτις), which perhaps may reflect (with vowel metathesis) an original Old Persian name *ᴴumati, meaning "having good thought," and which is an equivalent of the Avestan term humaⁱti (𐬵𐬎𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌).
The female name Amytis is the Latinised form of the Greek name Amutis (Αμυτις), which perhaps may reflect (with vowel metathesis) an original Median name *ᴴumati, meaning "having good thought," and which is an equivalent of the Avestan term humaⁱti (𐬵𐬎𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌).
Amitis or Amytis may refer to: Amytis of Media ( c. 630–565 BCE), daughter of Cyaxares and wife of Nebuchadnezzar Amytis (daughter of Astyages) (6th century BCE), daughter of Astyages and wife of Cyrus II
Amytis was married to Spitamas, who was a Median grandee and the prospective successor of Astyages. [ 1 ] After Astyages was overthrown by the Persian king Cyrus , who was his own grandson through his daughter Mandane , and therefore was the nephew of Amytis, Cyrus killed Spitamas and married Amytis to legitimise his rule.
According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC), for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her
He inherited a large empire, ruled in alliance with his two brothers-in-law, Croesus of Lydia and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whose wife, Amytis, Astyages' sister, was the queen for whom Nebuchadnezzar was said to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. [5]
The Babylonian historian Berossus mentions that this alliance between Babylon and Media was sealed with the marriage of Amytis, probably the daughter of Cyaxares, with the son of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II. [39] Afterwards Cyaxares and his army went home. In 613 BCE, the Medes are not mentioned in the chronicle.
Amyntas I (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντας) was king [b] of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from at least 512/511 until his death in 498/497 BC. [6] Although there were a number of rulers before him, Amyntas is the first king of Macedonia for which we have any reliable historical information. [7]