Topic: Babylonia (2)

• PersonParysatis

  Parysatis (Babylonian Purušatu; Iranian name reconstructed as *Paurušātiš) was a royal woman of the later fifth and early fourth centuries BCE. Ctesias's dynastic tradition makes her a daughter of Artaxerxes I by Andia and the wife and paternal half-sister of Darius II. Xenophon independently…

• EventThe Battle of Cunaxa (401 BCE)

  The Battle of Cunaxa (401 BCE) was the decisive clash between the royal army of Artaxerxes II and the coalition raised by his younger brother, Cyrus the Younger, somewhere north of Babylon. It was a civil war fought by two mixed royal armies, not a simple contest between Greeks and Persians.…