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Flourished c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Xerxes I
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
Cambyses II
king of Persia
Darius III
king of Persia
Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
Tissaphernes
Persian satrap
Mardonius
Persian general
Bahrām VI Chūbīn, coin, 6th century; in the British Museum
Bahrām VI Chūbīn
king of Iran
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Pharnabazus
Persian statesman
Cyaxares
king of Media
Phraortes
king of Media
Deioces
king of Media
Astyages (left) spearing a lion, detail of a gold scabbard; in the British Museum
Astyages
king of Media
Heydar Aliyev
president of Azerbaijan
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat