Artaxerxes
historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 16 anchored passages
king Artaxerxes · the King · Great King · King · King Artaxerxes · his brother · king Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes · the Great King · the king
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Persian Great King against whom Inarus's Egyptian revolt and the Athenian intervention were directed.
Now Inarus, the son of Psammetichus, the Libyan king of the Libyans bordering on Egypt, having his headquarters at Maraea, the city above Pharos, caused the greater part of Egypt to revolt from king Artaxerxes, and being himself made ruler of it, invited the Athenians to his aid.
and the king sent Megabazus, a Persian, to Lacedaemon with a sum of money, that he might cause the recall of the Athenians from Egypt by the Peloponnesians being persuaded to invade Attica.
and having gone up the country with one of the Persians on the coast, he sent a letter to king Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes, who was lately come to the throne.
Anabasis
The reigning Persian king and elder brother whom Cyrus plots to replace.
When Darius had died and Artaxerxes had become established as king, Tissaphernes falsely accused Cyrus to his brother of plotting against him.
Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them, of whom the elder was Artaxerxes and the younger Cyrus.
And Cyrus summoned the generals of the Greeks and told them that the march was to be to Babylon, against the Great King;
Stromata
Artaxerxes, Persian king who employed Nehemiah, with a later namesake counted in the Persian regnal list.
And after Aggaeus and Zacharias, Nehemiah, the chief cup-bearer of Artaxerxes, the son of Acheli the Israelite, builds the city of Jerusalem and repairs the temple.
Cyrus thirty years, Cambyses nineteen, Darius forty-six, Xerxes twenty-six, Artaxerxes forty-one, Darius eight, Artaxerxes forty-two, Ochus eight, Arses three.
Adversus Judaeos
King counted with his regnal years in the chronological reckoning toward Christ's coming.
Artaxerxes reigned forty-one years.
Cyropaedia
Persian ruler whose court exemplifies later decline through wine and neglect of hunting.
But since Artaxerxes and his court became the victims of wine, they have neither gone out themselves in the old way nor taken the others out hunting;
Hellenica
Persian monarch whose writing establishes the terms of the peace.
And now Antalcidas returned with Tiribazus from the Persian capital, having effected an agreement that the King should be an ally of the Lacedaemonians if the Athenians and their allies refused to accept the peace which he himself directed them to accept.
When these things had been accomplished and the states had sworn that they would abide by the treaty which the King had proposed, thereupon the armies were disbanded and the naval armaments were likewise disbanded.
King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros;