Another view attempts to identify him instead with Artaxerxes I ( ruled 465 – 424 BCE ), whose Babylonian concubine, Kosmartydene, was the mother of his son Darius II ( ruled 424 – 405 BCE ).

Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

* In Darius II ( arcade game ), players travel to Mars to eliminate one of many underground enemy bases.

Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy ; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Persian prince Cyrus, the son of Darius II.

Another canal probably incorporating a portion of the first was constructed under the reign of Necho II and completed by Darius.

Later the Persian king Darius had the same idea, and yet again Ptolemy II, who made a trench 100 feet wide, 30 feet deep and about 35 miles long, as far as the Bitter Lakes.

* 408 BC: The Persian king, Darius II, decides to aid Sparta in the war and makes his son Cyrus a satrap.

* Darius II, king of Persia ( reigned 423 – 404 BC )

* The Persian King Darius II dies of an illness in Babylon.

* Darius II Ochus, King of the Persian Empire

He is the leader of the Persian Empire in the video game Civilization II and III ( along with Scheherazade ), although Civilization IV replaces him with Cyrus the Great and Darius I.

After a reign of forty-five days, he was assassinated in 424 BC by his brother Sogdianus, who in turn was murdered by Darius II.

The second was Darius II, Artaxerxes I's son by his concubine Cosmartidene of Babylon, who was married to their common half-sister Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes I and his concubine Andia of Babylon.

Ochus ' first inscription as Darius II can be dated to January 10, 423 BC.

Darius II became the sole ruler of the Persian Empire and would reign till 404 BC.

* Darius II ( 423 to 404 BC )

** Darius II ( arcade game )

Therefore, many scholars identify him with Cyaxares II rather than Darius I of Persia.

Also according to Herodotus ( III. 139 ), Darius, prior to seizing power and " of no consequence at the time ", had served as a spearman ( doryphoros ) in the Egyptian campaign ( 528 – 525 BCE ) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King.

Darius did not seem to have any treasonous thoughts as Cambyses II ascended the throne peacefully, and through promotion Darius was eventually elevated to Cambyses's personal lancer.

Darius II (),( Dārayavahuš ), was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 405 BC.

Neither the names Xerxes II nor Sogdianus occur in the dates of the numerous Babylonian tablets from Nippur ; here effectively the reign of Darius II follows immediately after that of Artaxerxes I.

He chooses Codomannus, a distant relative of the royal house, who takes the name Darius III.

* Mike and Ran, a pair of cats with what looks like bandages between their legs, a comical way of suggesting they've been neutered. Mike's weapon set is heavily based on first Darius, while Ran takes her weapons from the R-Type Leo.

The investigation, which first focused on Ken, takes a new turn when DNA evidence shows that Ken's cousin Darius Parker ( Chris " Ludacris " Bridges ) is not only the murderer but also Ken's older half-brother, who had been abandoned by his mother — Tutuola's ex-wife Teresa Randall ( Lisa Gay Hamilton ).

Zechariah ’ s ministry took place during the reign of Darius the Great (), and was contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 / 7 BCE.

After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.

Quintus Curtius Rufus, the historian, says he was crucified in the place where Darius III had been killed, Arrian states that he was tortured and then decapitated in Ecbatana, and Plutarch suggests that he was torn apart in Bactria after a Macedonian trial.

Even some modern scholars have interpreted those lines in that time-frame, deducing a birth date on or just before 600 BC, while others place his birth around 550 BC to fit in with the Persian invasion under either Darius or Xerxes.

The region around Kirkuk was known in Aramaic and Syriac sources as " Beth Garmai " (), which means the " place of bones " in a reference to bones of slaughtered Achaemenids which littered the plains after a decisive battle between Alexander the Great and Darius III.

At that location the distance from the gulf of Issus to the surrounding mountains is only, a place where Darius could not take advantage of his superiority in numbers.

The Battle of Gaugamela (; ) took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia.

Under the Achaemenid dynasty Merv is mentioned as being a place of some importance: under the name of Margu it occurs as part of one of the satrapies in the Behistun inscriptions ( ca 515 BC ) of the Persian monarch Darius Hystaspis.

Darius Danesh's Dive In Tour took place in April and May 2003.

He confuses Arabia Scenite with Arabia Felix and claims that Issus was where the final battle and capture of Darius III took place.

After Darius Dax becomes the Supremium meteorite at the end of The Story of the Year, he is sent to a place similar to the Supremacy, called Daxia.

In the meantime Sumner had been promoted to the command of a Grand Division — II and IX Corps — and General Darius N. Couch, a division commander of the IV Corps, was appointed to his place.

The place derived its name Amastris from Amastris, the niece of the last Persian king Darius III, who was the wife of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea, and after his death the wife of Lysimachus.

In the apocrapha, Bel and the Dragon, verse 1 mentions Astyages the Mede, who was the last king before Cyrus the Persian ; but nearly the same verse is added in the Greek LXX after the end of Daniel chapter 6, having the name " Darius " in place of " Astyages ".

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

Darius conducted the introduction of a universal currency, the daric sometime before 500 BCE.

He began to transcribe the Old Persian portion of the trilingual inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ) written by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC.

Cuneiform records of the house of Egibi of Babylonia describe the families financial activities dated as having occurred sometime after 1000 BC and ending sometime during the reign of Darius I, show according to one source a " lending house " ( Silver 2002 ), a family engaging in " professional banking ..." ( Dandamaev et al 2004 ) and economic activities similar to a degree to modern deposit banking, although another states the families activities better described as entrepreneuship rather than banking ( Wunsch 2007 ).