Darius II
The ninth Achaemenid emperor (423-404 BC) · Historical Figures · Lived 475 BC to 404 BC · aged 71
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Something wrong?An Achaemenid king who took the throne through bloodshed after his father's death and kept it only by leaning on his wife. Greek sources tagged him "the Bastard" - a reference to the legitimacy questions that shadowed his entire reign.
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Clay tablet of Belshunu, governor of Babylon, Iraq. 5th century BCE. Pergamon Museum
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Debt-note on silver. The clay tablet is stamped with the seals of the involving parties. From Nippur, Iraq. Achaemenid period, c. 423 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul
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When Artaxerxes I died in 424 or 423 BC, his sons turned on each other. Ochus won the struggle and took the throne name Darius, though whispers about his lineage never stopped. His nineteen years as King of Kings were spent putting down revolts from his own satraps and meddling in the Peloponnesian War tearing through Greece. He ruled heavily under the influence of his wife Parysatis, and the palace historian Ctesias recorded harem intrigues in which Darius played an ugly role. The Elephantine papyri place him alongside the high priest Johanan; he may be the Darius named in Haggai, Zechariah, and Ezra-Nehemiah, though some scholars think those passages point to Darius the Great instead. He died in 405 or 404 BC.
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