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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARYSATIS , daughter of See also:

Artaxerxes I., married to her See also:brother Ochus (See also:Ctesias, Pers. 44), who in 424 B.C. became See also:king of See also:Persia under the name of See also:Darius II. (q.v.). She had See also:great See also:influence over her See also:husband, whom she helped by perfidy in the suppression of his See also:brothers Secydianus, who was king before him, and Arsites, who rebelled against him (Ctes. Pers. 48-51). Her favourite son was See also:Cyrus the Younger, whom she assisted as far as possible in his See also:attempt to gain the See also:throne. But when he was slain at Cunaxa (401) she nevertheless gained See also:absolute 'dominion over the victorious Artaxerxes II. She was the evil See also:genius of his reign. By a See also:series of intrigues she was able to inflict the most atrocious See also:punishment on all those who had taken See also:part in the See also:death of Cyrus. (ED.

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