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[[File:Medo-Persia - Achaemid Family Tree - inc Otanes & Cyaxares II.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The Achaemid Family Tree showing the merging or the royal houses of the Medes and the Persians to create the Medo-Persian Empire.]]

[[File:Medo-Persia - Achaemid Family Tree - inc Otanes & Cyaxares II.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The Achaemid Family Tree showing the merging or the royal houses of the Medes and the Persians to create the Medo-Persian Empire.]]

'''Xerxes II''' (Old Persian:𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠, Greek:Ξέρξης) and '''Sogdianus''', sons of [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I]] allegedly consecutively ruled Persia in the year 424-423BC.

'''Xerxes II''' (Old Persian:𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠, Greek:Ξέρξης) and '''Sogdianus''', sons of [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I]] allegedly consecutively ruled on the Medo-Persian/Achaemid throne for 45 days and 3 months respectively in the year 424-423BC.

We currently have no existing steles or clay tablets with the names of Xerxes (II) or Sogdianus engraved upon them; their existence is solely known to us through the works of [[Ctesias]].  We do have a coin minted in [[Sardis]], possibly under Xerxes II.

'''Xerxes II''' and '''Sogdianus''' are grouped together as we currently have no existing steles or clay tablets with the names of Xerxes (II) or Sogdianus engraved upon them; their existence is solely known to us through perhaps the most unreliable of historians, the now fragmentary works of [[Ctesias]].  We do have a coin minted in [[Sardis]], possibly under Xerxes II.