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Also Known As Chithrafarna
Died 395 BCE • Turkey
Role In Battle of Cunaxa • Peloponnesian War
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Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
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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Cambyses II
king of Persia
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Cyrus The Younger
Persian prince
Alexander and Darius
Darius III
king of Persia
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Darius II Ochus
king of Persia
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Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
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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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Demosthenes
Greek general
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Nicias
Greek general
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Brasidas
Spartan military officer
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Hermocrates
Syracusan diplomat
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Agis II
king of Sparta