Athenais Philostorgos I, her surname can be spelt as Philostorgus ( el, , meaning ''Athenais the loving one'', flourished 1st century BC) was a Queen of

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. Athenais was a

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noblewoman of obscure origins. She was the wife of the Cappadocian Persian nobleman and King Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios and through her marriage became a Queen of

. Ariobarzanes I reigned as King of Cappadocia from 95 to 63/62 BC. It appears when Ariobarzanes I reigned as King he married Athenais as his Queen. Little is known on how she reigned as Queen and her relationship with her family. Athenais bore Ariobarzanes I two children: a son Ariobarzanes II Philopator who later succeeded his father as King and a daughter,

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Philostorgos who later married the King

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. Athenais is also known through a surviving honorific inscription dedicated to her son in

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dating from the mid 1st century BC. :King Ariobarzanes Philopator, son of King
Ariobarzanes Philoromaios and of Queen
Athenais Philostorgos, (is honored by) those who had been commissioned
by him for the construction of the Odeion,
Gaius and Marcus Stallius, sons of Gaius, and
Menalippos, as their benefactor.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20131102190417/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0412.html * Sherk, R. K. ''Rome and the Greek East to the death of Augustus'', Cambridge University Press, 1984 1st-century BC rulers in Asia 1st-century BC women 1st-century BC Greek people Queens of Cappadocia 1st-century BC Greek women