Artaxerxes

Family: Persian · Role: king · First appears: Book 7 · §100–106

Life events

• Xerxes and Artaxerxes sent gifts to Mascames and his descendants.(Book 7 · §100–106)
  • With: Xerxes Mascames
  • “to him alone Xerxes used to send gifts, considering him the best of all the men whom either he himself or Dareios had appointed to be governors,--he used to send him gifts, I say, every year, and so also did Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes to the descendants of Mascames.”

Book 7 · §100–106

• parent: Xerxes (The parent relationship is stated in the preceding sentence: “and so also did Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes to the descendants of Mascames.”) “For even before this march governors had been appointed in Thrace and everywhere about the Hellespont; and these all, both those in Thrace and in the Hellespont, were conquered by the Hellenes after this expedition, except only the one who was at Doriscos; but Mascames at Doriscos none were ever able to conquer, though many tried. For this reason the gifts are sent continually for him from the king who reigns over the Persians.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.