Cyrus and Artaxerxes, the Rival Brothers (4-5/40) ⚔️ «Retreat of the Ten Thousand»

About the year 423 before Christ, the throne of Persia was occupied by a King named Darius II. His Queen, the beautiful Parysatis, had borne him thirteen children, but most of them had died young, and only two sons were now alive, between whose ages there was a difference of no less than thirty years. The elder was called Artaxerxes; the younger, Cyrus. Parysatis was not an impartial mother. She loved Cyrus far better than Artaxerxes and desired nothing more ardently than that he should succeed to the throne after the death of Darius, rather than his elder brother.

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