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Amestris
Wife of Xerxes who cruelly punishes the wife of Masistes.
minor
First appearance: book ix calliope
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- Other
Character groups
- Persian royal family and the historian
- Kings and commanders of the Greco-Persian Wars
- Protagonist
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