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Xerxes II and Sogdianus (view source)
Revision as of 06:10, November 14, 2020
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=Xerxes II=
=Xerxes II=
The last extant inscription we have stating [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I]] as being alive is dated to 424BC wherein we operate under [[Ctesias]]' instruction that '''Xerxes II''' as both the only known legitimate heir of [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Longimanus]] and [[Damaspia]] began his ascension until his brutal murder at the order of Sogdianus 45 days later. During that short time it seems that he was only able to thus far secure contol of the Persian heartlands.
The last extant inscription we have stating [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I]] as being alive is dated to 424BC wherein we operate under [[Ctesias]]' instruction that '''Xerxes II''' as both the only known legitimate heir of [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Longimanus]] and [[Damaspia]] began his ascension until his brutal murder during a state of intoxication by Pharnacyas and Menostanes on Sogdianus' orders, only 45 days later. During that short time it seems that he was only able to thus far secure contol of the Persian heartlands.
=Sogdiainus=
=Sogdiainus=
'''Sogdianus''' while the half-brother of '''Xerxes II''' murdered him and swept up control of his brother's domains until his own murder some six months later by [[Darius II]] who was then [[Satrap]] of [[Hyrcania]]. We consider the end of Sogdianus' reign to have ended in very early January of 423 BC as the first extant inscription we have of [[Darius II]] being king is dated as the 10th of January 423 BC.
=References=
=References=