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Flourished c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE
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Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Cambyses II
king of Persia
Alexander and Darius
Darius III
king of Persia
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Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
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Tissaphernes
Persian satrap
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Mardonius
Persian general
Bahrām VI Chūbīn, coin, 6th century; in the British Museum
Bahrām VI Chūbīn
king of Iran
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Pharnabazus
Persian statesman
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Cyaxares
king of Media
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Phraortes
king of Media
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Deioces
king of Media
Astyages (left) spearing a lion, detail of a gold scabbard; in the British Museum
Astyages
king of Media
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William B. Travis
United States military officer
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Mexican military officer