Editing Artaxerxes I (section)

==Relations with Greece==
[[File:He stoods silent before King.jpg|thumb|[[Themistocles]] stands silently before Artaxerxes]]
After the [[Achaemenid Empire]] had been defeated at the [[Battle of the Eurymedon]] ({{circa}} 469 BC), military action between [[Greece]] and [[Persia]] was at a standstill. When Artaxerxes&nbsp;I took power, he introduced a new Persian strategy of weakening the Athenians by funding their enemies in Greece. This indirectly caused the Athenians to move the treasury of the [[Delian League]] from the island of [[Delos]] to the Athenian acropolis. This funding practice inevitably prompted renewed fighting in 450&nbsp;BC, where the Greeks attacked at the [[Wars of the Delian League#Battles of Salamis-in-Cyprus|Battle of Cyprus]]. After [[Cimon]]'s failure to attain much in this expedition, hostilities ceased. Later sources argue that the purported [[Peace of Callias]] was agreed among [[Athens]], [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] and Persia in 449&nbsp;BC; however, the existence of a formal treaty between the Greek States and Persia is disputed.

Artaxerxes&nbsp;I offered [[Political asylum|asylum]] to [[Themistocles]], who was probably his father Xerxes's greatest enemy for his victory at the [[Battle of Salamis]], after Themistocles was [[ostracized]] from [[Athens]]. Also, Artaxerxes I gave him [[Magnesia on the Maeander|Magnesia]], [[Myus]], and [[Lampsacus]] to maintain him in bread, meat, and wine. In addition, Artaxerxes I gave him [[Skepsis]] to provide him with clothes, and he also gave him [[Percote]] with bedding for his house.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plutarch.classicauthors.net/PlutarchsLives/PlutarchsLives3.html|title=Themistocles, Part II |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001032753/http://plutarch.classicauthors.net/PlutarchsLives/PlutarchsLives3.html |archive-date=2015-10-01 |author=Plutarch|author-link=Plutarch}}</ref> Themistocles would go on to learn and adopt Persian customs, Persian language, and traditions.<ref name=TI137>Thucydides [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200;query=chapter%3D%23137;layout=;loc=1.136.1 I, 137]</ref><ref name=PT29>Plutarch, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0182;query=chapter%3D%23245;layout=;loc=Them.%2028.1 Themistocles, 29]</ref>