Amytis of Media

Amytis of Media (c. 540s-c. 520s BCE; Median: ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) was a Queen consort of the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire. She was the daughter of the Median king Astyages, and the wife of Cyrus II. Name The female name is the Latinised form of the Greek name, which perhaps may reflect (with vowel metathesis) an Median and Persian , meaning "having good thought," and which is an equivalent of the Avestan term. Life Amytis was the daughter of the Median king Astyages. Amytis had a paternal aunt, also named Amytis, who was the sister of Astyages and was married to the king Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. Amytis was married to Spitamas, who was a Median grandee and the prospective successor of Astyages.