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
- Succeeded
- Succeeded by
Attested in
- Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus 17.5.4–6; Kuhrt ch. 10 no. 3, pp. 424–425 in Artaxerxes III
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