Artaxerxes I Makrocheir
Artaxerxes I Makrocheir or Artaxerxes Longimanus: Achaemenid king of the Persian Empire, ruled from 465 to 424/423.
Relatives:
- Father: Xerxes
- Mother: Amestris
- Wife: Damaspia
- Son: Xerxes II
- Second wife: Alogyne, a Babylonian lady
- Son: Sogdianus
- Third wife: Andia, another Babylonian lady
- Bagopaeus, Parysatis (married to Darius II Nothus)
- Fourth wife: Cosmartidene, also a Babylonian lady
- Ochus = Darius II Nothus, Arsites
Main deeds
- Accession between 4 and 8 August 465, after his father Xerxes had been killed
- Represses the insurrection in Egypt that had been supported by Athens
- 449/448: Peace of Callias (?), in which Persia and Athens agree on the limits of their spheres of influence
- 440/439: Persian intervention in the Samian Warnote
- 431: Outbreak of the Archidamian War; both Athens and Sparta ask for Persian support
- Death between 24 December 424 and 10 January 423
Sources
Buildings
- Naqš-i Rustam: Tomb II (?)
- Persepolis: Hall of Hundred Columns, Palace of Artaxerxes I, Garrison Quarters
Succeeded by: civil war between Sogdianus, Xerxes II, and Darius II Nothus