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Flourished c.500 BCE - c.451 BCE
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
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Artaxerxes 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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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
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
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Harpagus
Median general
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
Khosrow I, crystal medallion, 6th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Khosrow I
king of Persia
Khosrow II
Khosrow II
king of Persia
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
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Kavadh I
king of Persia
Ardashīr I, coin, 3rd century; in the British Museum
Ardashīr I
Sāsānian king