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 did not believe that he had achieved the throne through fraud but through brilliant sagacity, even erecting a statue of himself mounted on his neighing horse stating " Darius, son of Hystaspes, obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebases, his groom.

Even though Darius did not have the support of the populace, Darius had a loyal army, led by close confidants and nobles ( including the six nobles with whom he removed Gaumata ) with whom he was able to suppress and quell all revolts within a year.

To ensure that one person did not gain too much power, each satrap had a secretary who observed the affairs of the state and communicated with Darius, a treasurer who safeguarded provincial revenues and a garrison commander who was responsible for the troops.

Darius did not actually take the field against Alexander ’ s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC.

Darius obviously did not accept this plan, and his conspirators became more anxious to remove him for his successive failures against Alexander and his forces.

He claimed that he did not have enough troops, but that Artaphernes, Darius ’ brother and the Persian satrap of Lydia, who commanded a large army and navy on the coast of Asia, could help supply troops.

It is likely that Artaxerxes I and Darius II visited the country as well, although it is not attested in our sources, and did not prevent the Egyptians from feeling unhappy.

The satrap Artaphernes did not want to send him back to Susa, where he suspected that Darius would pardon him, so he executed him and sent his head to Darius.

According to Herodotus, Darius still did not believe Histiaeus was a traitor and gave his head an honourable burial.

Although Darius and Girenas did not have navigational equipment and flew under unfavorable weather conditions, the flight was one of the most precise in aviation history.

The script of the episode " Band of Brothers " describes Darius as a monk with a " hideously ugly face ", but when the producers cast the part, they chose Stocker, who did not fit this description.

He did a voice acting role in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon, as a street racer named Darius.

Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.

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

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 an attempt to craft a lasting harmony between his Macedonian and Persian subjects, he took an oath of unity before 9, 000 Persian and Greek soldiers at Opis, he married Statira ( the daughter of Darius ) and held a mass marriage of his senior officers to Persian and other noblewomen at Susa just prior to coming to Opis.

Indeed Darius does attempt to go back to work, but Michael interrupts his day with a lawsuit claiming that Darius is not really Darius Stephens.

It features the story of Darius Weems, a fifteen-year-old freshman with DMD, who leaves home with his eleven best friends in an attempt to see his wheelchair customized on MTV's Pimp my ride.

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

In 492 BC, once the Ionian Revolt had finally been crushed, Darius dispatched an expedition to Greece under the command of his son-in-law, Mardonius.

Chalouf or Shaloof ), located just south of the Great Bitter Lake, had become so blocked with silt that Darius needed to clear it out so as to allow navigation once again.

However, once Cyrus had crossed the Aras River he had a dream with a vision of Darius in which he had wings atop his shoulders and stood upon the confines of Europe and Asia ( the whole known world ).

Another source accounts that when Darius perceived the fierce attack of Alexander, as at Issus he turned his chariot around, and was the first to flee, once again abandoning all of his soldiers and his property to be taken by Alexander.

The two men suggested to Darius that the army regroup under Bessus and that power would be transferred back to the King once Alexander was defeated.

Bardiya also took away the herds and houses of the people, which Darius corrected once he gained the throne.

The first of these, " Alexander and the Family of Darius ," so delighted Louis XIV that he at once ennobled Le Brun ( December, 1662 ), who was also created Premier Peintre du Roi ( First Painter to His Majesty ) with a pension of 12, 000 livres, the same amount as he had yearly received in the service of the magnificent Fouquet.

For Emperor Darius I The Great of Persia ( 522 BC – 485 BC ), the Greek Mandrocles of Samos once engineered a pontoon bridge that stretched across the Bosporus, linking Asia to Europe, so that Darius could pursue the fleeing Scythians as well as move his army into position in the Balkans to overwhelm Macedon.

He claims that once his brain died in his body, Darius is gone forever, and this robot is not truly Michael's father.

As the battle nears its conclusion, Alexander kills Darius, defeating the Persians once and for all.

Charsadda was once part of the kingdom of Gandhara, however around 516 BC Gandhara became part of the seventh satrapy or province of the Achaemenid Empire and paid tribute to Darius the Great of Persia, until its overthrow by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

Almost ten years later, Bauer decided once again to undertake an extended period of study in Europe, this time at the Paris Conservatory with André Gédalge, who had also taught composers such as Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, and Arthur Honegger.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

He drafted great talent such as Tony Boselli, Tony Brackens, Fred Taylor, Donovin Darius, John Henderson, Marcus Stroud, and David Garrard.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

Upon his great decision to leave ( 487-486 BC ), Darius prepared his tomb at Naqsh-e Rostam and appointed Xerxes, his eldest son by Atossa, as his successor.

When Cyrus awoke from the dream, he inferred it as a great danger to the future security of the empire, as it meant that Darius would one day rule the whole world.

Although Artobarzanes was the first born of Darius, Xerxes became heir and next king through the influence of Atossa, who had great authority in the kingdom, as Darius loved her, of all of his wives, most.

* Alexander has a great victory over the Persians in the Battle of the Issus River in Cilicia, but the Persian Emperor Darius III escapes.

The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius, amid great rejoicings on the part of all the people although it was evident that the Jews were no longer an independent people, but were subject to a foreign power.

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.

Another great difference between the power ups on Darius II and the rest of the Darius series ( except Super Darius II and Darius Twin ) is that on Darius II, the player must destroy a complete formation of 8 certain unarmed ship types in order to get a power up.

In the next year, another person claiming to be Bardiya, named Vahyazdāta () rose against Darius in eastern Persia and met with great success.

The invading Macedonian troops, led by Alexander the Great, defeated an army led by Darius III of Achaemenid Persia in the second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia.

While Alexander was in Tarsus he heard of Darius massing a great army in Babylon.

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

Agathyrsi appear in the description of the great nomadic Scythian empire of the sixth century BC and in the elaborately recounted the expedition ( 516-513 BC ) of Darius I of Persia ( 522-486 BC ) against the Scythians in the N. Pontic.

*" Daryoon " refers to the great general Darius.

Ariaramnes ( Old Persian: Ariyāramna, " He who brings peace to the Aryans ( i. e. Iranians )") was a great uncle of Cyrus the Great and the great-grandfather of Darius I, and perhaps the king of Parsa, the ancient core kingdom of Persia.

Another attestation of his reign is the later Behistun Inscription, where his great grandson Darius I states that eight Achaemenid kings preceded him-and then, he must be counting Ariaramnes as a king.