- Apama
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Tabebuia rosea .Apama was the wife of the first ruler of theSeleucid Empire ,Seleucus Nicator . They married atSusa in324 BC .According to ancient sources, Apama was the daughter of the
Sogdian baronSpitamenes (Arr. VII,4,6, from Ptolemy I).Apama and Seleucus had two daughters, Apama and Laodice, and two sons,
Antiochus I , who inherited the Seleucid throne, andAchaeus . After the death of Apama, Seleucus marriedStratonice , daughter ofDemetrius Poliorcetes , Seleucus had a daughter by Stratonice, who was called Phila. [ [http://www.attalus.org/translate/malalas.html Source] ]Several towns were named
Apamea after her.Notes
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