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Urdu:
اتوسا
Atoosa is a
Persian girl name meaning
beautiful body.In Iranian
History, Princess
Atoosa (550-475 B.C.) was the
daughter of
Cyrus the Great, half
sister to Cambyses who married
Dariush.
Atoosa is a prominent woman in the Iranian
history. After the death of his half brother Cambyses,
Atoosa married
Dariush the Great and gave birth to 4 children including Xerxes.She was so influential that got the important religious title Banu after
Anahita.According to a story, not very creditable; Cambyses fell in love with his half-
sister Atoosa and gathered magians to legitimize his
marriage to her.
Atoosa is known to be the person who intrigued
Dariush for his
conquest of Greece. (Wikipedia) - Atossa (Redirected from
Atoosa) Statue of Atossa.
Atossa or
Atoosa (from Old
Persian *Utauθa, and Avestan Hutaosā) was an Achaemenid queen and
daughter of
Cyrus the Great, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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