Artaxerxès Ier

Artaxerxès 1st Long-Hand (in Greek old Ἀρταξέρξης / Artaxérxês ) is the son and successor of Xerxès {{Ier}} on the throne of Perse and Egypt in -465.

It begins its reign with the execution of Artaban, minister and assassin of his father, then while making kill all his brothers after the revolt of the one of them, Satrape of Bactriane.

Confronted with a revolt in Egypt initiated by Inaros and Amyrtée with the assistance of Athens, he triumphs over it not without difficulties towards -456. The Athenian task force, cut off from an island from the the Nile, is massacred towards 456 while a fleet of reinforcement is destroyed.

Towards -449 it would have signed the Paix of Callias devoting the renunciation of the Perses to the Greek cities of Ionie. The signature of this peace remains however disputed.

It authorizes on a dubious date Esdras, then later Néhémie, to turn over in Palestine provided with an order giving him the government on the people Juif. Certain historians estimate that this event proceeded rather under the reign of Artaxerxès {{II}}.

Artaxerxès 1st dies in -424 after 41 years of reign.

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Dating of the period achéménide according to the texts and the inscriptions

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