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:''Not to be confused with [[Aka I of Commagene]]''
'''Aka II of Commagene'''<ref>Royal genealogy of Aka II of Commagene at rootsweb</ref> also known as '''Aka II''' or '''Aka'''<ref>Beck, ''Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works With New Essays'', p.43</ref> ({{lang-el|Άκα}}) was a Princess from the [[Kingdom of Commagene]]<ref>Beck, ''Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works With New Essays'', p.42-3</ref> who lived in the second half of the 1st century BC & first half of the 1st century.  

==Life==
She who was of [[Armenians|Armenian]], [[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Medes|Median]] descent.  

Aka II is one of the daughters born to the King of Commagene, [[Mithridates III of Commagene|Mithridates III]] who reigned from 20 BC until 12 BC from his cousin-wife Queen [[Iotapa (daughter of Artavasdes I)|Iotapa]], thus was a sister of [[Antiochus III of Commagene]].<ref>Royal genealogy of Mithradates III of Commagene at rootsweb</ref>  She was mostly probably born, raised and educated in [[Samosata]], the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.    

At an unknown date in the late first century BC, Aka II married an [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Greeks|Greek]] called [[Thrasyllus of Mendes]]<ref>Beck, ''Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works With New Essays'', p.42-3</ref> and the circumstances that led Thrasyllus to marry Aka II are unknown. Aka II is known from a preserved incomplete poem, that mentions Aka II as the wife of Thrasyllus and mentions she was of royal origins.<ref>see Conrad Cichorius (1927) p. 103 note(contracted; show full)
* B. Levick, Tiberius: The Politician, Routledge, 1999 
* R. Beck, Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works With New Essays, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004
* J.H. Holden, A History of Horoscopic Astrology, American Federation of Astrology, 2006
* Royal genealogy of Mithradates III of Commagene at rootsweb 
* Royal genealogy of Aka II of Commagene at rootsweb 
* Genealogy of daughter of Tiberius Claudius Thrasyllus & Aka II of Commagene at rootsweb


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