Parmys

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Parmida (Elamite Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis), son of Cyrus the Great. She was the grand daughter of Cyrus the Great, and Cassandane.

When Darius the Great (Darius I) seized the Achaemenid throne, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great and later on his granddaughter (Parmida). Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.

Sources

Herodotus, III, 88; VII, 78
Persepolis Fortification Tablets (where she is called Uparmiya)

References

Brosius, M: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998.
Lendering, J: "Parmys", in http://www.livius.org
Persepolis Fortification Archive Project

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