{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg064.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg064.local001","title":"Ἀρταξέρξης","titleGreek":"Ἀρταξέρξης","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1926","volume":"11","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives11plut/page/128/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Ἀρταξέρξης. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg064.local001","excerpt":"ὁ μὲν πρῶτος Ἀρτοξέρξης, τῶν ἐν Πέρσαις βασιλέων πραότητι καὶ μεγαλοψυχίᾳ πρωτεύσας, Μακρόχειρ ἐπεκαλεῖτο τὴν δεξιὰν μείζονα τῆς ἑτέρας ἔχων, Ξέρξου δὲ ἦν υἱός· ὁ δὲ δεύτερος, περὶ οὗ τάδε γράφεται, Μνήμων ἐπικληθείς ἐκ θυγατρὸς ἦν ἐκεῖνον. Δαρείου γὰρ καὶ Παρυσάτιδος παῖδες ἐγένοντο τέσσαρες, πρεσβύτατος μὲν Ἀρτοξέρξης, μετʼ ἐκεῖνον δὲ Κῦρος, νεώτεροι δὲ τούτων Ὀστάνης καὶ Ὀξάθρης. ὁ μὲν οὖν Κῦρος ἀπὸ Κύρου τοῦ παλαιοῦ τοὔνομα ἔσχεν, ἐκείνῳ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου γενέσθαι φασί Κῦρον γὰρ καλεῖν Πέρσας τὸν ἥλιον. ὁ δὲ Ἀρτοξέρξης Ἀρσίκας πρότερον ἐκαλεῖτο· καίτοι Δείνων φησὶν ὅτι Ὀάρσης, ἀλλὰ τὸν Κτησίαν, εἰ καὶ τἆλλα μύθων ἀπιθάνων καὶ παραφόρων ἐμβέβληκεν εἰς τὰ βιβλία παντοδαπὴν πυλαίαν, οὐκ εἰκός ἐστιν ἀγνοεῖν τοὔνομα τοῦ βασιλέως παρʼ ᾧ διέτριβε θεραπεύων αὐτὸν καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ μητέρα καὶ παῖδας.","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/#tlg0007-tlg064-local001-30"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg064.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg064/local001.json.gz"}}