Artaxerxes

Artaxerxes is the name of five kings of the Achaemenid Empire and three rulers from the dynasty of the Sassanids:

  • Artaxerxes I. Makrocheir ( ap: Artachschatra, reign 465 BC - 424 BC), the fifth ruler of the kingdom of founder Cyrus II
  • Artaxerxes II Mnemon (reigned 404 BC - 359 BC), 7th ruler for the kingdom of founder Cyrus II
  • Artaxerxes III. Ochos (reigned 359 BC - 338 BC)
  • Artaxerxes IV Arses (reigned 338 BC - 336 BC)
  • Artaxerxes V Bessus (r. July 330 BC - Summer 329 BC), assassinated the last Achämenidenkönig Darius III and took the title of king

The Middle Persian form of the name Ardashir is also reproduced in some Greco-Roman sources as Artaxerxes. Was the most important bearer of this name

  • Ardashir I (reigned 224-241 AD ), the founder of the New Persian Empire of the Sassanids

Artaxerxes in art stands for

  • Artaserse (German Artaxerxes ), opera libretto in Italian by Pietro Metastasio, multiple set to music: Artaserse ( Vinci), opera by Leonardo da Vinci ( 1730)
  • Artaserse ( Hasse ), opera by Johann Adolph Hasse ( 1730)
  • Artaxerxes ( Arne ), opera by Thomas Arne ( 1762)
  • Artaserse ( Mysliveček ), opera by Josef Mysliveček (1774 )
  • Disambiguation
Arses of Persia Ardeshir
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