List of Ancient Persians - Women

Women

  • Amestris
  • Apama wife of Seleucus I Nikator
  • Artystone
  • Atossa wife of Darius I
  • Damaspia
  • Drypetis wife of Hephaestion
  • Mandane of Media
  • Parysatis
  • Roxana wife of Alexander the Great
  • Sisygambis
  • Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II)

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