<GetPassage xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns="http://chs.harvard.edu/xmlns/cts">
            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:A.amastris_3</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:A.amastris_3</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="amastris-bio-3" n="amastris_3"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Amastris</surname></persName></head><p>3. Also called Amastrine (<foreign xml:lang="grc">Ἀμαστρινή</foreign>), the daughter of
      Oxyartes, the brother of Darius, was given by <ref target="alexander-the-great-bio-1">Alexander</ref> in marriage to Craterus. (Arrian. <hi rend="ital">Anab.</hi> 7.4.) Craterus
      having fallen in love with Phila, the daughter of Antipater, Amastris married Dionysius,
      tyrant of Heracleia, in Bithynia, <date when-custom="-322">B. C. 322</date>. After he death of
      Dionysius, In <date when-custom="-306">B. C. 306</date>, who left her guardian of their children,
      Clearchus, Oxyathres, and Amastris, she married Lysimachus, <date when-custom="-302">B. C.
       302</date>. Lysimachus, however, abandoned her shortly afterwards, and married Arsinoe, the
      daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus ; whereupon Amastris retired to Heracleia, which she governed
      in her own right. She also founded a city, called after her own name, on the sea-coast of
      Paphlagonia. She was drowned by her two sons about <date when-custom="-288">B. C. 288</date>.
      (Memnon, 100.4, 5 ; <bibl n="Diod. 20.109">Diod. 20.109</bibl>.) The head figured below
      probably represents Amastris: the woman on the reverse holds a small figure of victory in her
      hand. (Eckhel, ii. p. 421.)</p><p><figure/></p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
                </passage>
            </reply>
            </GetPassage>