As can be seen at the Behistun Inscription, Darius believed that Ahura Mazda had appointed him to rule the Achaemenid Empire.

Darius had dualistic convictions and believed that each rebellion in his kingdom was the work of druj, the enemy of Asha.

Darius believed that because he lived righteously by Asha, Ahura Mazda supported him.

It was previously believed that Cyrus had constructed this building, however due to the cuneiform script being used, the palace is believed to have been constructed by Darius.

André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great ( Kūrosh ) who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius the Great ( Daryush ) who built the terrace and the great palaces.

A railroad levee that runs through the town is still visible, and is believed to have been built by slaves from a plantation owned by Darius Robinson.

Some, such as the Ancient Greeks, believed that this coin's name is derived from the name Darius, but in reality it appears to be derived from a Persian word meaning " gold "; in Middle Persian it is called zarig.

The other three tombs are believed to be those of Xerxes I ( c. 486-465 BC ), Artaxerxes I ( c. 465-424 BC ), and Darius II ( c. 423-404 BC ) respectively.

Intaphernes was one of the seven noblemen who had deposed the previous ruler and installed Darius as the new monarch.

One evening, Intaphernes went to the palace to meet Darius, but was stopped by two officers who stated that Darius had retired for the night.

Taking precautions against further resistance, Darius sent soldiers to seize Intaphernes, along with his son, family members, relatives and any friends who were capable of arming themselves.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

It was occupied by the Persians in 514 BC, and Darius burnt it in 512.

Amyntas was a tributary vassal of Darius Hystaspes of Persia.

" That very night ", we are informed, Belshazzar was slain and " Darius the Mede " took over the kingdom.

The successor of Cyrus as king of Persia was named Darius.

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 ).

Jewish tradition relates that Esther was the mother of a King Darius and so some try to identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes I and Esther with Kosmartydene.

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

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.

It was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.

Once the Ionian revolt was finally crushed by the Persian victory at the Battle of Lade, Darius began plans to subjugate Greece.

Moreover, the Persian king Darius was a usurper, and had spent considerable time extinguishing revolts against his rule.

The revolt was used as an opportunity by Darius to extend the empire's border to the islands of the eastern Aegean and the Propontis, which had not been part of the Persian dominions before.

The expedition was intended to bring the Cyclades into the Persian empire, to punish Naxos ( which had resisted a Persian assault in 499 BC ) and then to head to Greece to force Eretria and Athens to submit to Darius or be destroyed.

The Hall of Hundred Columns at Persepolis, measuring 70 × 70 metres, was built by the Achaemenid king Darius I ( 524 – 486 BC ).

( He was named after Dave Brubeck's mentor Darius Milhaud.

Afghanistan was inhabited by the Aryan tribes and controlled by the Medes until about 500 BC when Darius the Great ( Darius I ) marched with his Persian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire.

Afghanistan became part of the Achaemenid Empire, after it was conquered by Darius I of Persia.

His death in 522 was followed by a period of turmoil until Darius the Great seized the throne in about 521.

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

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 ).

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.

After becoming aware of the Persian defeat at the Battle of Marathon, Darius began planning another expedition against the Greek-city states ; this time, he, not Datis, would command the imperial armies.

From Ragha, Darius the Great sent reinforcements to his father Wishtaspa, who was putting down the rebellion in Parthia ( Behistun 3, 1 – 10 ).

Darius I struggled with widespread rebellions in the satrapies, and under Artaxerxes II occasionally the greater part of Asia Minor and Syria was in open rebellion ( Revolt of the Satraps ).

Alexander ordered that Bessus's nose and ears be cut off, which was a Persian custom for those involved in rebellion and regicide ; the Behistun inscription relates that Darius the Great punished the usurper Phraortes in a similar manner.

Concerned about the possibility of a rebellion, he halted work on the reconstruction of the temple until work resumed at the decree of Darius I (, ).

The mission was a debacle, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great.

The mission was a debacle, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great.

After reconfirming Macedonian rule by quashing a rebellion of southern Greek city-states and staging a short but bloody excursion against Macedon's northern neighbors, Alexander set out east against the Achaemenid Persian Empire, under its " King of Kings " ( the title all Achaemenid kings went by ), Darius III, which he defeated and overthrew.

Once his rebellion was in the open, Aristagoras “ set himself to damage Darius in every way he could think of .” To gain support, he deposed the despots in the other Ionian states, and claimed he too would end his tyranny, to allow for popular government.

When questioned about the actions of Aristagoras, his deputy, Histiaeus claimed no prior knowledge of the plans and swore to put down the rebellion if Darius allowed him to return to Ionia.

Darius consented and Histiaeus, whom Herodotus claimed had no intention of putting down the rebellion, returned to Ionia to assist Aristagoras.

Aristagoras saw his great rebellion falling to pieces around him and began looking for a way to escape form Darius ’ wrath.

The mission was a debacle, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great.

Three key pieces of information seem to support this: Firstly, Darius I, like Cyrus, also conquered Babylon and personally commanded the Persian army that took the city in 522 BCE to put down a rebellion.