Artaxerxes I of Persia
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Artaxerxes I (Artakhshathra I) was king of the Persian Empire from 465 BC to 424 The name as given is the Greek form; the Persian form is Artakhshathra. The Biblical Hebrew form is ארתחשסתא Artakhshasta. In later Persian, he was called Ardeshir.
After Persia had been defeated at Eurymedon, military action between Greece and Persia had come to a standstill. 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. This funding practice inevitably prompted renewed fighting in 450 BC, where the Greeks attacked at the Battle of Cyprus. After Cimon's failure to attain much in this expedition, the Peace of Callias was agreed between Athens, Argos and Persia in 449.
Artaxerxes I offered Themistokles, who was the winner of the Battle of Salamis, asylum after Themistokles was ostracized (banned) from Athens.
The rebuilding of Jerusalem was begun by Nehemiah, Artaxerxes' cupbearer "in the 20th year of King Artaxerxes" (Nehemiah 2:1) or 445 B.C.
[edit] Sons
By queen Damaspia
By Cosmartidene of Babylon
By Andia of Babylon
| Achaemenid dynasty Born: ??; Died: 424 | ||
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| Preceded by: Xerxes I | Great King (Shah) of Persia 465–424 | Succeeded by: Xerxes II |
| Pharaoh of Egypt 465–424 | ||
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| Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans |
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