#darius the third

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Darius III

-- originally named Artashata

-- called Codomannus by the Greeks

-- last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia

-- born in 380 BCE

-- died in July of 330 BCE in Bactria

-- married to Stateira I

-- empire was unstable

-- Alexander the Great began his invasion in 334 BCE

-- battled Alexander at the Battle of Gaugamela

-- killed by his cousin and satrap, Bessus

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Memnon of Rhodes

-- Greek

-- exiled to Macedon, where he met seven-year-old Alexander

-- Memnon returned to Persia’s military at the behest of his brother after three or four years in Macedon

-- commander in the Achaemenid Empire

-- married into Persian aristocracy

-- married his brother’s widow, Barsine

-- wanted Darius to start a rebellion in Greece to harm Alexander

-- became commander of the western provinces after the Battle of Granicus

-- lead commander at Halicarnassus

-- tried to overtake Greek islands

-- died during the siege of Mytilene

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