Xerxes Ii.
Ξέρξης
(Ξέρξης), the only legitimate son of Artaxerxes I., succeeded his father as king of Persia in B. C. 425, but was murdered after a short reign of only two months by his half-brother Sogdianus or Secundianus, who thus became king. (Diod. 12.71; Ctesias, Pers. 100.44.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.