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=Sogdiainus=

=Sogdiainus=

'''Sogdianus''' while the half-brother of '''Xerxes II''' to [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I's]] concubine [[Alogyne]] of [[Babylon]], murdered '''Xerxes II''' and swept up control of his brother's domains until his own murder some six months later by his half-brother [[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.

'''Sogdianus''' while the half-brother of '''Xerxes II''' to [[Artaxerxes I Longimanus|Artaxerxes I's]] concubine [[Alogyne]] of [[Babylon]], murdered '''Xerxes II''' and swept up control of his brother's domains until his own capture and execution some six months later by his half-brother [[Darius II]] who was up to that time [[Satrap]] of [[Hyrcania]].  '''Sogdianus''' was executed by suffocation in ashes as per the explicit order of [[Darius II|Ochus]] since he had promised '''Sogdianus''' that he would not die by sword, poison or hunger.  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.

 

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