title: Athenais
text: # Athenais
  
  Athenais or Athenaïs is a given name which may refer to:
  
  * Athenais (seer), 4th century BC prophetess who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine descent
  * Athenais Philostorgos I (fl. 1st century BC), Queen of Cappadocia
  * Athenais Philostorgos II (fl. 1st century BC), princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and through marriage a Roman client Queen of Cappadocia
  * Athenais of Media Atropatene (fl. 1st century BC), princess from the Kingdom of Commagene and wife of Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene
  * Athenais (daughter of Herodes Atticus) (141-161), noblewoman who lived in the Roman Empire
  * Athenais (great-granddaughter of Herodes Atticus), Roman noblewoman who lived between the second half of the 2nd century and first half of the 3rd century
  * Aelia Eudocia (c. 401–460), birth name Athenais, wife of East Roman Emperor Theodosius II
  * Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan (1641–1707), better known as Madame de Montespan, chief mistress of King Louis XIV of France
  