# Apama

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{{Short description|4th-century BC Seleucid queen consort}}
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'''Apama''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀπάμα|Apáma}}), sometimes known as '''Apama I''' or '''Apame I''',<ref name="livius" /> was a [Sogdia](/source/Sogdia)n<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apame I - Livius|url=https://www.livius.org/articles/person/apame-i/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=www.livius.org}}</ref> noblewoman.

==Biography==
The wife of the first ruler of the [Seleucid Empire](/source/Seleucid_Empire), [Seleucus I Nicator](/source/Seleucus_I_Nicator), they [married at Susa](/source/Susa_weddings) in 324 BC. According to [Arrian](/source/Arrian), Apama was the daughter of the [Sogdian](/source/Sogdiana) baron [Spitamenes](/source/Spitamenes).<ref name="ancestry" /><ref name="magill" /><ref name="holt" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Spitamenes - Livius|url=https://www.livius.org/articles/person/spitamenes/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=www.livius.org}}</ref> [Strabo](/source/Strabo), on the other hand, makes her a daughter of [Artabazus](/source/Artabazos_II).<ref name="strabo" /> Apame was the only of the Susa wives to become queen as, unlike the other [general](/source/general)s, Seleucus kept her after Alexander's death.<ref name="grainger" />

Apama had three children with her husband: [Antiochus I Soter](/source/Antiochus_I_Soter) (who inherited the Seleucid throne), [Achaeus](/source/Achaeus_(son_of_Seleucus_I_Nicator)), and a daughter also called Apama.

Circa 300-297 BC, Seleucus married [Stratonice](/source/Stratonice_of_Syria), daughter of [Demetrius I of Macedon](/source/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon), by whom he had a daughter called [Phila](/source/Phila_(daughter_of_Seleucus)).<ref name="malalas">[http://www.attalus.org/translate/malalas.html Chronicle of Johannes Malalas]</ref> According to Malalas's chronicle, he married her after the death of Apama <ref name="malalas" /> but, according to other sources, she was still alive, as the people of Miletus honored her with a statue that year.<ref name="hellenistic_queens" />

According to [Appian](/source/Appian) (57–8), her husband named three cities [Apamea](/source/Apamea_(disambiguation)) after her. Modern scholars consider them to be [Apamea on the Orontes River](/source/Apamea_(Syria)), [Apamea in the Euphrates](/source/Apamea_(Euphrates)), and [Apamea in Media](/source/Apamea_(Media)).<ref name="samarkand-sardis" />

== Notes ==
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<ref name="ancestry">Arrian VII, 4, 6: "to Seleucus the daughter of Spitamenes the Bactrian" [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183612 Translation]. </ref>
<ref name="strabo">Strabo 12.8.15: "the city which he named after his mother Apama, who was the daughter of Artabazus" [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.2917 Translation].</ref>
<ref name="livius">{{Cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apame/apame_i.html |title=Apame I<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2020-03-26 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183244/http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apame/apame_i.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="magill">Magill, Frank N. et al. (1998), ''The Ancient World: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 1'', Pasadena, Chicago, London,: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Salem Press, p. 1010, {{ISBN|0-89356-313-7}}.</ref>
<ref name="holt">Holt, Frank L. (1989), ''Alexander the Great and Bactria: the Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia'', Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill, pp 64–65 (see footnote #63 for a discussion on [Spitamenes](/source/Spitamenes) and Apama), {{ISBN|90-04-08612-9}}.</ref>
<ref name="grainger">{{cite book|last1=Grainger|first1=John D.|title=Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom|date=1990|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0-415-04701-3|page=12}}</ref>
<ref name="hellenistic_queens">{{cite book|last1=Macurdy|first1=Grace Harriet|title=Hellenistic Queens|date=1985|publisher=Ares Publishers|isbn=0-89005-542-4|page=78|authorlink1=Grace Macurdy|location=Chicago}}</ref>
<ref name="samarkand-sardis">{{cite book|author1=Sherwin-White, Susan|author2=Kuhrt, Amélie|authorlink2=Amélie Kuhrt|title=From Samarkand to Sardis. A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire|date=1993|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley}}</ref>

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