AchaemenicaAn Encyclopaedia of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Person

Artaxerxes IV

Arses; Achaemenid king, r. 338–336 BCE

A young son of Artaxerxes III, known personally as Arses, whose short reign and violent death are registered independently in a Babylonian dynastic text as well as in the Greek tradition.

Date
r. 338–336 BCE
Other names
Arses · Artaxerxes IV · Artaxšaça
Groups
Achaemenid kings Achaemenid royal family
Record status
Secure identification

No full article yet; this register record preserves the identity and its evidence in the meantime.

Connections

Child of
Artaxerxes III Achaemenid king, r. 359/8–338 BCE BM 71537
Succeeded
Artaxerxes III Achaemenid king, r. 359/8–338 BCE BM 71537
Succeeded by
Darius III last Achaemenid king, r. 336–330 BCE Strabo

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