Artaxerxes

For Parysatis had a specious argument (the same that Xerxes the Elder employed on the advice of Demaratus[*](See Herodotus, vii. 3. )), to the effect that she had borne Arsicas to Dareius when he was in private station, but Cyrus when he was a king. However, she could not prevail, but the elder son was declared king, under the new name of Artaxerxes, while Cyrus remained satrap of Lydia and commander of the forces in the maritime provinces.[*](Cf. Xenophon, Anab. i. 1, 1 ff. )

A little while after the death of Dareius, the new king made an expedition to Pasargadae, that he might receive the royal initiation at the hands of the Persian priests. Here there is a sanctuary of a warlike goddess whom one might conjecture to be Athena.