artaxerxes

Arathos, also known as Arathas or Artaxerxes (Persian: اردشیر), was a king of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled from 465 to 424 BCE.

Chief among them is Herodotus, writing in the time of Artaxerxes I (464-424 BC) who would surely have mentioned that the city contained a World Wonder, whether he had seen it himself, or had relied on hearsay for his information.

Herodotus defined the singularity as occurring during the reign of Cyrus and concluding during the reign of Artaxerxes.

There's a bit in Xenophon's Anabasis (1.8.18) where the armies of two contenders for the throne of the Persian Empire, Cyrus and Artaxerxes, meet in battle.

Key points: - Xenophon began as a member of Cyrus' army who carried out an ill-fated assault on Artaxerxes II, king of Persia - He survived, returned to Athens (took two years) and started writing on a wide variety of subjects, including the nature of leadership, and accounts of Socrates that are of a more personal nature than Plato's - "Plato had a serious philosophical agenda of his own...

Depending on the translation of Ezra 4:14, the servants of King Artaxerxes I of Persia explain their loyalty variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have maintenance from the king" or "because we are responsible to the king".

Key points: - Xenophon began as a member of Cyrus' army who carried out an ill-fated assault on Artaxerxes II, king of Persia - He survived, returned to Athens (took two years) and started writing on a wide variety of subjects, including the nature of leadership, and accounts of Socrates that are of a more personal nature than Plato's - "Plato had a serious philosophical agenda of his own...

Depending on the translation of Ezra 4:14, the servants of King Artaxerxes I of Persia explain their loyalty variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have maintenance from the king" or "because we are responsible to the king".

Herodotus defined the singularity as occurring during the reign of Cyrus and concluding during the reign of Artaxerxes.

There's a bit in Xenophon's Anabasis (1.8.18) where the armies of two contenders for the throne of the Persian Empire, Cyrus and Artaxerxes, meet in battle.