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Artaxerxes I of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (200 words) |
 | Artaxerxes I was king of the Persian Empire from 464 BC to 424 BC. |
| When Artaxerxes I took power, he began a new tradition of drawing off the Athenians by funding their enemies in Greece. |
| This indirectly caused the Athenians to move the treasury of the Delian League from the island of Delos to the Athenian acropolis. |
| History of Iran: Artaxerxes (Artâkhshatra) Ardashir-e Derâz-Dast (6167 words) |
| Upon this, Artaxerxes, perceiving what was his wisest way of waging the war, sent Timocrates the Rhodian into Greece, with large sums of gold, commanding him by a free distribution of it to corrupt the leading men in the cities, and to excite a Greek war against Sparta. |
| But Artaxerxes gratified the Grecians in one thing in lieu of the many wherewith he plagued them, and that was by taking off Tisaphernes, their most hated and malicious enemy, whom he put to death; Parysatis adding her influence to the charges made against him. |
| In fine she persuaded him to marry her and declare her to be his lawful wife, overriding all the principles and the laws by which the Greeks hold themselves bound, and regarding himself as divinely appointed for a law to the Persians, and the supreme arbitrator of good and evil. |
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