Receives Argive envoys at Susa
· Susa, Khuzestan, Iran
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file Herodotus reports an Argive embassy at Susa that questioned Artaxerxes about its friendship with Xerxes; the king answered them there. The event is conventionally placed soon after Artaxerxes I's accession. Herodotus does not give a year; 465 BC follows the scholarly placement of this embassy shortly after Artaxerxes' accession.
