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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 Median name *ᴴumati, meaning "having good thought," and which is an equivalent of the Avestan term humaⁱti (𐬵𐬎𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌) or humata (𐬵𐬎𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬀).
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).
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 (daughter of Xerxes I) (5th century BCE), daughter of Xerxes I; Amytis Towfighi, American neurologist and professor; 5560 Amytis, a ...
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.
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