Artaxerxes
Family: Persian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
In Book 1, Chapter 3, Artaxerxes gave Phoenician triremes to Conon, which Evagoras secured. In Chapter 8, Callias negotiated peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes, according to most Athenians.
By Book 3, Chapter 9, Agesilaus had been appointed commander of the land forces for the Asian expedition. Hearing of Agesilaus’s victorious progress, Artaxerxes condemned Tissaphernes to death, despite his past service, and gave his satrapy to Tithraustes. In Book 6, Chapter 5, Darius, Artaxerxes’ illegitimate son, deposed Sogdius, Artaxerxes’ legitimate son, and usurped the kingdom.
Relationship record
Life events
- Evagoras secured the Phoenician triremes that Artaxerxes had given to Conon.(Book 1 · Chapter 3)
- Callias negotiated peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes.(Book 1 · Chapter 8)
- With: Callias
- “Callias who negotiated peace, as most of the Athenians say, between the Greeks and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes.”
- Agesilaus is appointed commander of the land forces for the Asian expedition.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Asia)
- With: Agesilaus
- “And Agesilaus, after being instructed to convey the expedition to Asia as commander of the land forces”
- Artaxerxes condemns Tissaphernes and transfers his satrapy to Tithraustes.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Tissaphernes Tithraustes
- “he condemned Tissaphernes to death, although he had in former times done him signal service, and gave his satrapy to Tithraustes”
- Darius deposed Sogdius and usurped Artaxerxes’ kingdom.(Book 6 · Chapter 5)
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- with Conon (Artaxerxes gave triremes to Conon.) “the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- protégé: Conon “who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
Book 1 · Chapter 8
- with Callias (Callias negotiated peace with Artaxerxes.) “Callias who negotiated peace, as most of the Athenians say, between the Greeks and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes”
- parent: Xerxes “Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- parent: Darius (Darius is Artaxerxes's father.) “to capture Artaxerxes the son of Darius”
- enemies with Agesilaus (Agesilaus sought to conquer Artaxerxes and Persia.) “the success would be more glorious, the happiness greater, to conquer the great King Artaxerxes, and to be master of Persia”
- with Tissaphernes (Artaxerxes condemned Tissaphernes despite his former service.) “he condemned Tissaphernes to death, although he had in former times done him signal service”
- with Tithraustes (Artaxerxes transferred Tissaphernes's satrapy to Tithraustes.) “and gave his satrapy to Tithraustes, a longheaded fellow and very able man”
- with Timocrates (sent as an agent to foment war) “So he sent Timocrates a native of Rhodes into Greece with money, bidding him stir up war against the Lacedæmonians in Greece”
Book 9 · Chapter 15
- enemies with Cyrus “Xenophon who took part in the expedition of Cyrus against king Artaxerxes”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.