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Amastris (in Greek language|Greek A??????????????; killed 284 BC), also called Amastrine, was the daughter of Oxyathres of Persia|Oxyathres, the brother of the Persian Empire|Persian king Darius III of Persia|Darius III, was given by Alexander the Great in marriage to Craterus.rf|1|arr_7.4 But Craterus preferred to her Phila of Macedonia|Phila, the daughter of Antipater, so Amastris married Dionysius of Heraclea|Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica, in Bithynia, 322 BC. After the death of Dionysius, in 306 BC, who left her guardian of their children, Clearchus, Oxyathres of Heraclea|Oxyathres, and Amastris, she married Lysimachus, 302 BC. Lysimachns, however, abandoned her shortly afterwards, and married Arsinoe II of Egypt|Arsinoe, the daughter of Ptolemy I Soter, king of History of Greek and Roman Egypt|Egypt; whereupon Amastris retired to Heraclea, which she governed in her own right. She also founded shortly after 300 BC a city called after her own name Amasra|Amastris, on the sea-coast of Paphlagonia, by the fusion (synoecism) of the four smaller towns of Amasra|Sesamus, Cronma, Cytorus and Tium. One of these towns, Tium, later regained its autonomy, but the other three remained part of the city of Amastris' territory. She was drowned by her two sons about 284 BC.rf|2|memn_4_5_diod_20.109

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