Sogdianos

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Sogdianos ( Sogdyậna ; † 423 BC ) was in 423 BC. BC a little over six months Persian great king from the ruling house of the Achaemenids .

After the death of the great king Artaxerxes I , his son Xerxes II ascended the throne. After Ktesias von Knidos , however, his half-brother Sogdianos (the Greek form of the name) conspired against him, who had Xerxes murdered after only a few weeks and seized power. Soon after, however, another half-brother of the Xerxes named Ochos rose against Sogdianos. Sogdianos was finally overthrown and murdered, Ochos ascended the throne as Darius II .

However, the credibility of the Ktesias (or the surviving excerpt from his Persika , since the work has only survived in fragments) is not entirely reliable. In Babylonian sources, neither Xerxes II nor Sogdianos are listed as kings, which makes the representation in Ktesias seem suspicious. After the death of Artaxerxes there seems to have been three kings for a short time: Xerxes, Sogdianos and Dareios, who all laid claim to the throne, whereby Dareios was ultimately able to prevail. Matt Waters recently pleaded for the Ktesias account to be considered credible, since several other people named there are also mentioned in the relevant Babylonian sources.

literature

  • Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 2002, ISBN 978-1-57506-574-8 .
  • Matt Waters: Ancient Persia. A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-0-521-25369-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ktesias , Persika , fragment 15, § 47-49 in the extract from Photios .
  2. ↑ Pierre Briant: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake 2002, pp. 588f.
  3. ↑ Matt Waters: Ancient Persia. A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE. Cambridge 2014, pp. 167f.
predecessor Office successor
Xerxes II. Persian king
423 BC Chr. 		Darius II
predecessor Office successor
Xerxes II. Pharaoh of Egypt
27th Dynasty 		Darius II
personal data
SURNAME Sogdianos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sogdyậna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION persian king
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 423 BC Chr.