List of monarchs of Persia

Achaemenid dynasty

• Cyrus the Great, ruled from around 550-530 B.C.

• Cambysses, ruled 530-521 B.C.

• Darius I of Persia, ruled 521-486 B.C.

• Xerxes I of Persia, ruled 486-465 B.C.

• Artaxerxes I of Persia, ruled 464-425 B.C.

• Darius II of Persia, ruled 423-404 B.C.

• Artaxerxes II of Persia, ruled 404-358 B.C. (cf Xenophon)

• Artaxerxes III of Persia, ruled 358-338 B.C.

• Darius III of Persia, ruled 336-330 B.C.

Alexander and the Seleucids

• Alexander the Great

• Seleucus Nicator

• Antiochus I

• ...

Parthian dynasty

Sassanid dynasty

History of Levant