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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 16 | 16 | Browse | Search |
| Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Poetics | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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465 B.C.With the passing of this year, in Athens Lysitheus was
archon, and in Rome the consuls elected were Lucius
Valerius Publicola and Titus Aemilius Mamercus. During this year, in Asia Artabanus, an
Hyrcanian by birth, who enjoyed the greatest influence at the court of King Xerxes and was
captain of the royal body-guard, decided to slay Xerxes and transfer the kingship to himself.
He communicated the plot to Mithridates the eunuch, who was the king's chamberlain and enjoyed
his supreme confidence, and he, since he was also a relative of Artabanus as well as his
friend, agreed to the plot. And Artabanus, being led at night
by Mithridates into the king's bed-chamber, slew Xerxes and then set out after the king's sons.
These were three in number, Darius the eldest and Artaxerxes, who were both living in the
palace, and the third, Hystaspes, who happened to be away from home at the time, since he was
administering the satrapy of B