DARIUS III

(Darius Codomannus)kŏdəmănˈəs, d. 330 b.c., king of ancient Persia (336–330 b.c.). A cousin of Artaxerxes III, he was raised to the throne by the eunuch Bagoas, who had murdered both Artaxerxes and his son, Arses; Darius in turn murdered Bagoas. His rule was not stable, however. When Alexander the Great invaded Persia, Darius was defeated in the battle of Issus (333 b.c.) and again in the battle of Gaugamela near Arbela (331 b.c.). For the first time Persia was confronted by a united Greece, and Darius' greatest error was in underestimating Alexander's strength. Darius used the wrong tactics in battle and was forced to flee to Ecbatana and then eastward to Bactria. It was there that the satrap of Bactria, Bessus, had Darius murdered on Alexander's approach and took command himself in the unsuccessful opposition to the Macedonian conqueror. These events brought the Persian Empire to an end and marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period in the E Mediterranean. Darius III is probably the Darius the Persian mentioned in the Bible (Neh. 12.22).

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The Construction of the Assyrian Empire: A Historical Study of the Inscriptions of Shalmaneser III (859-824 B.C.) Relating to His Campaigns in the West
Book by Shigeo Yamada; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Assyria--History--Sources, Cuneiform Inscriptions, Akkadian, Shalmanesar--Iii--King Of Assyria--Fl. 9th Cent. B.C
...934-745 B.C.) , in C477, III/ 1, Cambridge, 1982, pp...1991 A Text of Shalmaneser III on the Amulet-shaped Stone...Asylum at Aleppo: A Note on Sfire III, 4-7 , in FS Tadmor, pp...The Bisitun Inscription of Darius the Great: Aramaic Version...
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Antiochus III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor
Book by John Ma; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Antiochus--Iii--King Of Syria--Ca. 242-187 B.C, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Turkey, Greeks--Turkey--History--To 1500, Syria--History--333 B.C.-634 A.D
...8?o?av av?KOVrcov, in a similar situation (Antiochos III appoints the high-priest of a temple at Daphne); unfortunately...ovaavras TE Kai -rrspvaTSi?avras EZ EVETEiAaTo Ba?av KTA., Darius ... ordered his attendants to wash and wrap up well the head...
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The Clayhanger Family: I. Clayhanger. II. Hilda Lessways. III. These Twain
Book by Arnold Bennett; Methuen, 1925
Subjects: Fiction
III "Well?" Darius growled impatiently, even savagely...horribly swearing. "So thats it, is it?" Darius growled again. And he leaned forward...crime." "Whost been running after?" Darius demanded inimically. Instead of being...
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Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting
Book by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Oracles, Greek
...build a new temple for God. In Sib. Or. III, the adjective royal sometimes denotes...kingship (compare, for in- stance, III 175). In line 288, a certain royal tribe...various Persian kings, among whom Cyrus and Darius, are depicted as providing the Jews with...
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Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar: A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III and Pythian VIII
Book by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Aegina Island (Greece)--In Literature, Games In Literature, Laudatory Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Odes--History And Criticism, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation
...1toiTllla ioic Ctlihoic eyKpa8Ev 1tpocTlvEc yivetu,t, 135, III 61 Dr.).11! Cf. also HpJ?6.18, 25.14, etc. Milk...A.Pers.61 1-8 Atossa brings milk, honey and water to Darius grave, together with wine, olive-oil, and flowers, in...
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Of Jesus, Darius, Marduk ...: Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Moussaieff Collection
Journal article by Christa Muller-Kessler; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Ancient pottery--Collections and collecting, Aramaic language--History, Aramaic language--Research, Arameans--Research, Arameans--Social aspects, Moussaieff, Shlomo--Collections and collecting, Pottery, Ancient--Collections and collecting
Of Jesus, Darius, Marduk ...: Aramaic Magic...16, and the passage in III Henoch 1:6 to which Levene...here creates the name of King Darius, but the text has TEXT NOT...ASCII "the sword of king Darius of Dews." The passage parallels...
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"Let the Truth Heal": the Making of Nobody Knows: the Untold Story of Black Mormons
Journal article by Gregory A. Prince; Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: African Americans, Documentary films, Filming, Gray, Darius, Mormonism, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Young, Margaret
...you, Martin Luther King III, those main interviews...Lake Symposium, and with Darius. And at that point...here by permission of Darius Aiden Gray and Margaret...Church. Martin Luther King III: The perception is that...members of this Church. Darius Gray: Im a proud black...
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A Real Options Analysis of Pharmaceutical-biotechnology Licensing
Journal article by Darius Kharabi; Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Vol. 11, 2006
Subjects: Agreements, Attorneys, Biotechnology industry, Intellectual property, Licensing, Pharmaceutical industry, Real options analysis
...biotechnology Licensing by Darius Kharabi Introduction In todays...play in its negotiation.3 Part III describes real options theory...resolution, and confidentiality.23 III. Real Options Theory A. What...colon cancer patients in a phase III clinical trial, the companys...
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Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets
Journal article by Tomas J. Philipson, Seth A. Seabury, Lee M. Lockwood, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2010
Subjects: Health care costs--Research, Medical care utilization--Research, Medical care, Cost of--Research, Medical care--Research, Medical care--Utilization
...Lockwood , Dana P. Goldman , Darius N. Lakdawalla ABSTRACT The...the private sectors. Section III discusses how our findings relate...less variation in spending. III. Comparisons with Existing...University of Southern California DARIUS N. LAKDAWALLA university of...
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Decreased Energy Metabolism Extends Life Span in Caenorhabditis Elegans without Reducing Oxidative Damage
Journal article by Jeremy Michael Van Raamsdonk, Yan Meng, Darius Camp, Wen Yang, Xihua Jia, Claire Bénard, Siegfried Hekimi; Genetics, Vol. 185, 2010
Subjects: Aging, Evacuations & rescues, Genotype & phenotype, Rodents
...Michael Van Raamsdonk , Yan Meng , Darius Camp , Wen Yang , Xihua Jia...transfer from complex I to complex III in the electron transport chain...2(e1368) vab-7(e1562)III; unc-31(e928)IV; dpy...protein in mitochondrial complex III, and mutations in this protein...
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On the Path of Persian History : The Islamic Republic of Iran May Impose Its Will on a Reluctant Population, but This Does Not Deny Its Glorious Past as One of the Greatest Empires History Has Known
Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 16, December 2001
Subjects: Iran--Description and travel
...the Torah and Roman law. Cyrus and Darius believed they had a divine mandate...silks and brocades, and the famous Darius treasury. His great weakness was...Alexander pursued the last Achaemenian, Darius III, as far as Gorgan, just east of...
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The Persian Epic of Kings: Millennium of the Poet Ferdowsi
Magazine article by Rasoul Sorkhabi; World and I, Vol. 26, January 2011
Subjects: Ferdowsi--Criticism and interpretation, Ferdowsi--Works, Persian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, The Book of Kings (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...dynasty but mentions only two of its kings, Darab (Darius II) and Dara (Darius III). We know from history that the Achaemenid dynasty...the Sassanian kings, the last of which Yazdgird III was defeated by the Arabs in the seventh century...
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Alexander the Great: Hunting for a New Past? Paul Cartledge Goes in Search of the Elusive Personality of the World's Greatest Hero
Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 54, July 2004
Subjects: Alexander the Great--Behavior, Conquerors--Behavior, Greece--History, Greek history, Kings and rulers--Behavior, Kings--Behavior
...of his defeated enemy, Great King Darius III of Persia. Yet it can be argued that...consul of Rome; Shakespeares Richard III would have given his kingdom for a...arts of poison, paving the way for Darius IIIs immediate predecessor to assume...
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Alexandria the Great: On the Mediterranean at the Western Edge of the Nile Delta Stands the Most Important and Enduring of All the Many Cities Founded by Alexander. Though Much of Its Material Past Has Been Destroyed or Lies Underwater, Alexandria's Reputation as the Intellectual Powerhouse of the Classical World, Fusing Greek, Egyptian and Roman Culture, Lives On
Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 59, October 2009
Subjects: Alexander the Great--History, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--Appreciation, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--History, Greek history, to 330 (Ancient period)
...process during which Alexandria was founded. Alexander III, posthumously labelled the Great, was born in 356 BC...the final, decisive battle with the Persian Great King Darius III at Gaugamela in northern Iraq in October 331 BC. Instead...
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Why the West Has Won: Freedom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; The American Spectator, Vol. 34, November 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Democracy, Freedoms, Military history, War
...was a bloodbath.Alexander himself killed more Europeans in Asia than did the hundreds of thousands of Persians under Darius III. The Roman Civil Wars nearly ruined the republic, in a way that even Hannibal had not. Waterloo, the Somme and Omaha...
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Darius Razon, the Debonair Balladeer of the 70s
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 16, 2008
Darius Razon, the Debonair Balladeer...That song made me," says Darius Razon, top balladeer of the...cuts of my songs in The Best of Darius. I was told that abroad, there...like Victor Wood, Tirso Cruz III and Edgar Mortiz. Nag-commit...
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TEN OF THE GREATEST; Conquerors
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 5, 2010
...Syria, he destroyed the armies of Darius III and gained control of the entire Eastern...72 from a fever. 6 PHARAOH THUTMOSE III OF EGYPT 1479-1425 BC Responsible...on the bank of the Thames, Thutmose III never lost a battle in 18 summer campaigns...
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Who's the Biggest Who? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2005
...Battle of Marathon, in 490 BC, 100,000 Persians under Darius I attempted to enslave Greece but were driven into the...the Great with 47,000 troops defeated the forces of Darius III, replacing the oriental dynasty with Greek rule and extending...
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Can Your Dog Teach You the Secret of Happiness?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 16, 2011
...might well have been Alexander the Average. When the formidable Greek leader was overwhelmed by the army of Persias Darius III in 333BC, the loyal mastiff leapt up and bit the lip of an elephant leading a charge against his master. This saved...
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Red Moon: Lunar Eclipse to Make It Memorable Solstice
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 20, 2010
Subjects: Eclipses, Eclipses (Astronomy)
...long been associated with superstitions and signs of ill omen, especially in battle.The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC was foretold by soothsayers when the Moon turned blood...
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encyclopedia articles on: Darius III  - 9 results

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Darius III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DARIUS III (Darius Codomannus)kod man s, d. 330 b.c., king of ancient Persia...marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period in the E Mediterranean. Darius III is probably the Darius the Persian mentioned in the Bible (Neh. 12...
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Artaxerxes III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARTAXERXES III d. 338 b.c., king of ancient Persia (358 338 b.c.), son and...Artaxerxes son Arses on the throne in 338, then deposed him in 336 in favor of Darius III . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...control were fruitless. Artaxerxes III , who gained the throne by massacring...his counselor, the eunuch Bagoas. Darius III in turn murdered Bagoas and ruled...an end to the Achaemenid empire. Darius, last of the great kings, fled east...
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Achaemenids
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Xerxes II, Sogdianus, Darius II, Artaxerxes II (opposed by Cyrus the Younger), Artaxerxes III, Arses, and Darius III. The dynasty ended when Darius III died in his flight from Alexander the Great. ____________________ Copyright...
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Alexander the Great
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALEXANDER THE GREAT or Alexander III, 356 323 b.c., king of Macedon...Issus met and routed the hosts of Darius III of Persia, who fled before him...then went to Mesopotamia where he met Darius again in the battle of Guagamela...
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