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'''Darius III''' was King of Persia, from 336 BCE to 330 BCE.
*DICTIONARY: see [[Darius III]]
*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Darius III (sources)]]


==Biography==
Darius III was a member of the Persian royal family. He was put on the throne by Vizir Bagoas who had murdered [[Artaxerses III]] and all his sons, including [[Arses]] whom he had initially supported as the new King.


Eventually, Darius III managed to have Bagoas killed. He thus consolidated his rule against his internal enemies, but could do nothing against the rising power of the Macedonians. When in 334 BCE [[Alexander the Great]] took the leadership of the invasion that his father Philip has launched two years before, Darius III's army was defeated in a series of battles. At the end the king was murdered by one of his  own generals, Bessus, who proclaimed himself king, only to be captured and executed  the year later by [[Alexander the Great]], now the unchallenged ruler of the Persian Empire.  
This category includes (in chronological order) scholarly and fictional works dealing with the character of the Persian King [[Darius III]].  


====Darius III and the Jews====
As King of Persia, Darius III was the ruler of Judah.


==Darius III in Second Temple Jewish sources==
[[Category:Categories]]
 
==Darius III in Scholarship==
 
==Darius III in Fiction==
 
==Related categories==
*[[Persian Kings|Persian Kings (subject)]]
*[[High Priests|High Priests (subject)]] / [[Zadokites|Zadokites (subject)]]
 
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_III Wikipedia]
 
[[Category:Subjects]]
[[Category:People]]

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