Talk:Artaynte

nonsense

this article doesnt make any sense, and has been here for a long time. hopefully someone can make sense of this. what i did cant be any worse than what was there.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

references

[1] containts the following text, supposedly taken from Herodotus' Histories, book 9, chapter 108-113:

The unfortunate daughter of Masistes and the wife of Darius II.

Artaynte was forced to marry Darius at the bidding of Darius’ father, Xerxes; since Xerxes was the king of the Persian Empire, his wishes were literally the commands of his subjects and family.

Xerxes coveted the wife of his brother, Masistes, and used young Artaynte as a pawn in his game to seduce his brother’s wife; Xerxes arranged for his son, Darius, to marry Artaynte and thus endear himself to the girl’s mother but Xerxes soon lost interest in Masistes’ wife and began a love affair with Artaynte.

When Xerxes’ wife, Amestris, suspected the betrayal, she set a clever trap for her husband and her daughter-in-law; she gave Xerxes an exquisite cloak that she knew Artaynte would covet; Xerxes, in his prideful way, promised Artaynte anything she desired and she surprised him by asking for the unique and beautiful cloak; Xerxes tried to dissuade her by offering her gold, cities and command of her own army but Artaynte wanted only the cloak.

When Amestris saw the cloak in the possession of young Artaynte, she planned an evil and unexpected revenge; instead of punishing Xerxes or Artaynte, Amestris killed and mutilated Artaynte’s mother.

As a logical conclusion to this tragedy, Xerxes killed Artaynte’s father, Masistes, her brothers and her father’s supporters so that they could not enact revenge for the excesses of the king and his hateful wife, Amestris.

also: [2] for a scan of an older text (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities edited William Smith (1870). )showing a brief biography of artaynte. text here:

ARTAYNTE ('Aprativrr)), a daughter of Masistes, the brother of Xerxes I. Xerxes gave her in marriage to his son Dareius, but he himself was in love with her, and on one occasion was obliged, by his own imprudent promise, to give her a robe which he had received as a present from his wife Amastris. Thus the king's paramour be­ came known, and Amastris, fancying that the love affair was the work of the wife of Masistes, took the most cruel vengeance upon her. (Herod, ix. 108—110.) Maximus Tyrius (xxvi. 7) confounds the two women, Amastris and Artaynte. (Comp. Tzetz. GUI. ii. 6.) [L. S.]

My error, artaynte is not the same person as artayntes, as this page shows. I will revert links i made.

another reference: [3] linking the story of artaynte to previous persian myths. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.80.6.163 (talk) 16:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:32, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

still nonsense

The whole main sentence is one ugly mess of comma splice that fails to make sense. I suggest the interested author(s) break it down into separate sentences with appropriate comments noting complicated (and scandalous?) family relationship and any ambiguity originating from the source material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.228.80.90 (talk) 07:46, 21 October 2013 (UTC)