Nysa (daughter of Nicomedes III of Bithynia)
Nysa or Nyssa was a Greek Princess from the Kingdom of Bithynia.Biography
Nysa was the daughter of the Monarchs Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Nysa, a princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia. She was the namesake of her mother and had several half-brothers, Nicomedes IV of Bithynia from her fathers first marriage to Aristonica,, Socrates Chrestus born by her fathers concubine Hagne, and possibly Pylaemenes III by an unknown woman. She was born and raised in Bithynia.
According to Suetonius , her cause was defended by the Roman Politician Gaius Julius Caesar in gratitude for her father's friendship.Cultural depictions
Nysa is mentioned but does not appear in the novel The October Horse by Colleen McCullough. She appears briefly in Hail, Caesar! by Fletcher Pratt.Ancestry
