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| − | 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 | + | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 06:10, November 14, 2020
Xerxes II (Old Persian:𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠, Greek:Ξέρξης) and Sogdianus, sons of Artaxerxes I allegedly consecutively ruled on the Medo-Persian/Achaemid throne for 45 days and 3 months respectively in the year 424-423BC.
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.
Xerxes II
The last extant inscription we have stating 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 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
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.