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Darius (Old Persian: ๐ญ๐ ๐ผ๐น๐บ๐ข๐ Dฤrayavaสฐuš; Ancient Greek: Δαρεแฟος Dareios; c. 485 – 465 BCE), was crown prince of the Persian Empire. He was the eldest son of the Persian king Xerxes I and his wife Amestris. His younger brothers were Hystaspes and Artaxerxes, and his younger sisters were Rhodogune and Amytis.
He was the son of Darius the Great and Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great. In Western history, Xerxes is best known for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC, which ended in Persian defeat. Xerxes was designated successor by Darius over his elder brother Artobazan and inherited a large, multi-ethnic empire upon his father's death.
Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind (Old Persian: ๐๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐บ, "Hidauv", locative of "Hiduš", i.e. "Indus valley") to Lydia (Old Persian: "Spardâ") – [this is] what ...
Verse 1 sets the time of Daniel's vision as the "first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede", [20] but no Darius is known to history, nor can any king of Babylon be placed chronologically between the known historical figures of Belshazzar and Cyrus. [1]
Xerxes I also shows that he is a good son and a good king, as he finished the work initiated by his father. [5] According to Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (2013): "The inscription practically reiterates the campaign against Greece that was responsible for Xerxes' personal presence in Anatolia ". [ 5 ]
Arsames (Greek: แผρσฮฌμης) or Arsanes was a prince of ancient Persia, the son of Darius the Great and Artystone.Through his parents, he was the great-grandson of the 6th century BCE Persian ruler Arsames on his father's side, and he was also the grandson of Cyrus the Great on his mother's.
Darius I (the Great, 550 to 487 BC) Darius II (423 to 404 BC) Darius III (Codomannus, 380 to 330 BC) Crown princes. Darius (son of Xerxes I), crown prince of Persia, may have ruled briefly in 465 BC; Darius, son of Artaxerxes II, crown prince and junior king of his father, father of Arbupales
Within the text, the father and son of the king had different groups of symbols for names so Grotefend assumed that the king must have been Darius. [11] These connections allowed Grotefend to figure out the cuneiform characters that are part of Darius, Darius's father Hystaspes, and Darius's son Xerxes. [11]