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 | | Artaxerxes I was immediately succeeded by his eldest son Xerxes II, who was however assasinated by one of his half-brothers a few weeks later. |
 | | Plutarch relates (probably on the authority of Ctesias) that the displaced Tissaphernes came to the new king on his coronation day to warn him that his younger brother Cyrus (the Younger) was preparing to assasinate him during the ceremony. |
 | | If Greek accounts are to be trusted, Artaxerxes\' successor Artaxerxes III (358 BC-338 BC) came to the throne by bloody means, ensuring his place upon the throne by the assasination of eight of his half-brothers. |
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