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