Atossa

Atossa (nata circa 550, mortua 475 a.C.n.) quinto saeculo exeunte et quarto ineunte fuit Persarum regina. Filia Cyri Magni erat et Cambysi nupsit, quo occiso Smerdis uxor paulisper fuit (sive ille verus Cambysis frater erat sive usurpator). Smerde victo et occiso prima inter Darii uxores erat cui Xerxem peperit. Ita filia, uxor, mater regum esse gloriabatur. Qua de causa praecipuas partes in Aeschyleis Persis agebat.

De morbo

Darii monumentum in quo et Atossa sepulta est.

Herodotus in Historiis^[1] narrabat quomodo medicus Graecus Democedes reginam sanarit dum tumorem e mamma exsecat. Sunt moderni medici qui putent hanc primam cancri mammae descriptionem in litteris fuisse^[2]. Non omnes consentiuntː multi tumorem benignum fuisse existimant.

Notae

↑ III.133
↑ Sandison, A. T. (1959). "The First Recorded Case of Inflammatory Mastitis— Queen Atossa of Persia and the Physician Democêdes". Medical History. 3 (4): 317–322. Thomas Tursz, La Nouvelle Médecine du cancer : histoire et espoir, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2013 (hic legere potes). Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Simon and Schuster, 2011 (hic legere potes).

Fontes

Aeschylus, Persae
Herodotus, Historiae

Plura legere si cupis

Yancy Hughes Dominick, "Acting Other: Atossa and Instability in Herodotus", The Classical Quarterly, 2007ː 432-444
Wouter F. Henkelman. « Xerxes, Atossa and the Persepolis Fortification Archive ». In The Netherlands Institute for the Near East Leiden, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey Istanbul (NIT), Annual Report 2010ː 27-33.

Nexus externi

Atossa in Encyclopaedia Iranica

[1] III.133

[2] Sandison, A. T. (1959). "The First Recorded Case of Inflammatory Mastitis— Queen Atossa of Persia and the Physician Democêdes". Medical History. 3 (4): 317–322. Thomas Tursz, La Nouvelle Médecine du cancer : histoire et espoir, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2013 (hic legere potes). Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Simon and Schuster, 2011 (hic legere potes).

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