Atossa, Hutaosa

- language staroperskiego HĹ«tos (550-47 5 BC) - Persian queen as the wife of Darius I. She was the daught er of Cyrus II the Great, Cambyses II, half-sister, and the usurp er Bardiji. Her brother Cambyses wanted to marry her, but then in Persia, these associations were no longer legitimate and his advisers odradzili him this marriage. Finally, in 522 BC Atossa married Darius. The only child of this pair was the son - Xerxes. Atossa died of breast cancer before her son came to power - but according to Herodotus - is still alive, when Xerxes was crowned.