Individual Details
(Ca 440 BC - Ca 410 BC)
Statira of Armenia was the daughter of Hydranes III of Armenia and N. N. (?) .3 She died 0402 B.C. In circa. "Now there is a small Persian bird, in the inside of which no excrement is found, only a mass of fat, so that they suppose the little creatures lives upon air and dew. It is called rhyntaces. Ctesias affirms, that Parysatis, cutting a bird of this kind into two pieces with a knife one side of which had been smeared with the drug, the other side being clear of it, ate the untouched and wholesome part herself, and gave Statira that which was thus infected; ... Statira; who, dying with dreadful agonies and convulsions, was herself sensible of what had happened to her, and aroused in the king's mind suspicion of his mother, whose savage and implacable temper he knew."3 She married King of Persia and Egypt Artaxerxes II Mnemon Achaemenid , son of King of Persia and Egypt Darius II Nothus Achaemenid and Parysatis (?) , 0420 B.C; His 1st.4,3,2 Sources: 1. Stuart, R.W. 'Royalty for Commoners', line 412. ; 2. Toumanoff, C. 'The Orontids of Armenia' in 'Studies in Christian Caucasian History' (1963) pp.288-289.
Events
| Birth | Ca 440 BC | Persia | | | |
| Death | Ca 410 BC | Persia | | | |
| Marriage | | Artaxerxes King of Persia II | | | |
Families