Artaxerxes
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Artaxerxes was the name of several rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia:
- Artaxerxes I
- Artaxerxes II
- Artaxerxes III
- Arses of Persia is believed to have taken the royal title of "Artaxerxes IV".
- Bessus, the Persian nobleman who murdered Darius III of Persia, renamed himself Artaxerxes when he claimed the throne.