PERSIA MEDIA BABYLON ASSYRIA ruled 700-675 bc: founder of the 722-705 Sargon dynasty. In 691 founder of the Median he fought against royal line 700-647 bc Sennacherib at the Battle of Hallule. Achaemenes Deioces Sennacherib Zondervan Pictorial 705-681 Bible Encyclopedia vol. 4, 1978, p. 713. Phaortes subdued Persia’s king ruled 675-640 bc: Teispes I (Herod. i, 102). He was Esarhaddon Teispes I bore title "Great 681-669 slain at Nineveh in battle with King" = Artaxerxes Ashurbanipal: reigned 647-625 bc Lydian princes, Phaortes 669-627 Ashurbanipal Ariaramenes Cyrus I daughter of King in 612 bc Alyattes Cyaxeres I and 640-600 bc Nabopolassar and sister Cyaxeres I Nabopolassar of his son razed Nineveh; King reign: 625-585 Croesus Egyptian? Arsames Cambyses I M M Aryenis Astyages Amytis 1 Nebuchadnezar M Nitocris 2? 600-559 bc 585-550 bc M Mandane Cyaxeres II Daughter Evil Merodach Nitocris ? Cyaxeres II is Darius the Mede: Dan. 5:31, 9:1; M M Neriglissar Hystaspis Cyrus-Great Cassandane Xenophon, Cyrop. i, 5, 2; M viii, 5, 7-20; viii, 6, 19-20. He gave his daughter as Cyrus the Great, king of: Sister of Otanes: wife to c.42 year old Labashi Marduk 559 bc Anshan father = Phar naspes Cyrus in 538: Cyrop. viii, 550 bc Media an Achaemenid: 5, 17-20, 28. Darius the 546 bc Lydia Herod. iii, 2-3; 68 Mede is Astyages' son 539 bc city of Babylon and had another name Nabonidus 536 bc of Persian Empire among the Greeks: Nabonidus = Labynetus This is his biblical 1st year 521-486 bc Josephus, Antiq. x. 11. 4. of Herodotus. i, 74. Belshazzar Nabu-balatsu-iqbi – his father = "a wise prince Darius I Atossa Artystone Cambyses II Smerdis Meroe and govenor of Haran" Mother = Adad-guppi 529-521 bc ANET, pp. 560-561 Belshazzar = Nebuchadnezzar's Grandson M Pharmys (Jer.27:6-7, cp. Dan.5:2, 11, 13, 18). His father, Nabonidus, thus had to have married a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar. Vashti Esther Gobryas' Daughter Phaedyme Belshazzar is the "Labynetus" of Herodotus i, 77, 188, and the Baltasar" or 486-465 bc Darius I wed Cyrus’ daughters Atossa "Naboandelus" of Jos. Antiquities x, 11, 2, M a daughter and Artystone as well as Vashti, but the "Naboandelus" of Jos. Contra Xerxes I Amestris of Otanes. Esther, Pharmys and Phaedyme: (Against) Apion, I, 20 is Nabonidus. Herod., vii, 61 she was a former wife of Cambyses II (Herodotus iii, 68; 88). Artaxerxes I Longimanus, 465-424 bc Phaedyme (Phaedymia) was the daughter of Otanes, an Achaeminid (brother of Cyrus’ wife Cassandane: he was one of the 6 noblemen who Darius II Xerxes II killed the magus Pseudo-Smerdis. Otanes married Darius’ sister (or Parysatis I, daughter daughter) who gave birth to Amestris). Nothus 423-405 of Artaxerxes I, Before becoming king, Darius also married Darius II wed a daughter of Gobryas Nothus, her half (Herodotus vii, 2). Artaxerxes II Ostanes brother. Their sons Cambyses II also married his sisters, were Artaxerxes II Meroe and Atossa (Ussher, Annals, Mnemon 404-358 bc Mnemon, Ostanes & p. 122; 1658 ed. p. 106). Cyrus the Younger. Later, Darius I married Atossa. They were the parents of Xerxes I. Ochus Arsames Ussher believed Vashti was Atossa (Annals, of World, pp. 122, 127; 1658 ed. pp. 106, 112) Arses Darius III (Codomannus) Defeated by Alexander the Great in 331 bc .