This could be another name of Cyaxares' daughter. Amytis, as she is more widely known, was the Medean princess for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built. The legend has it that her husband, Nebuchadnezzar II, created these gardens in order to alleviate his wife's homesickness. She missed the mountain springs where she grew up, in Media. So, being the kind-hearted, loving husband, he built one of the Seven Wonders in her honor.

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