Editing Bessus (section)

=== Modern works ===
* {{cite book |last=Binder|first=Carsten|chapter=From Darius II to Darius III|editor-last1=Jacobs|editor-first1=Bruno|editor-last2=Rollinger|editor-first2=Robert|title=A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire |date=2021 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZA7EAAAQBAJ|pages=457–473|isbn=978-1119174288}}
* {{cite book | title = From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire | year = 2002 | publisher = Eisenbrauns | last = Briant | first = Pierre | author-link = Pierre Briant | isbn = 978-1575060316 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lxQ9W6F1oSYC&q=false }}
* {{citation |last=Briant |first=Pierre |date=2015 |title=Darius in the Shadow of Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul_rBQAAQBAJ |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674493094}}
* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | volume=7 | fascicle=2 | title = Darius v. Darius III | last = EIr. | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/darius-v | pages = 51–54}}
* {{cite book | last = Foltz | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Foltz | title = A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U2KmDwAAQBAJ | year = 2019 | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing | location = New York | isbn = 978-1784539559}}
* {{Cambridge History of Iran|volume=3a|last=Frye|first=R. N.|authorlink=Richard Nelson Frye|chapter=The political history of Iran under the Sasanians}}
* {{cite book|last=Heckel|first=Waldemar|authorlink=Waldemar Heckel|title=Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire|year=2006|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|isbn=978-1405188395}}
* {{cite book | title = In the Path of Conquest: Resistance to Alexander the Great | year = 2020 | publisher = Oxford University Press | last = Heckel | first = Waldemar | isbn = 978-0190076689 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FcjLDwAAQBAJ }}
* {{cite encyclopedia | last1 =Kuhrt | first1 =Amélie | last2 =Sancisi-Weerdenburg | first2 =Helen |author-link1=Amélie Kuhrt|author-link2=Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg| date = 2006 | title = Bessus | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | publisher = Brill Online | editor-last1 = Salazar | editor-first1 = Christine F. | editor-last2 = Landfester | editor-first2 = Manfred | editor-last3 = Gentry | editor-first3 = Francis G. | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/*-e215960 }}
* {{cite book |last=Nawotka|first=Krzysztof|chapter=The Conquest by Alexander|editor-last1=Jacobs|editor-first1=Bruno|editor-last2=Rollinger|editor-first2=Robert|title=A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire |date=2021 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZA7EAAAQBAJ|pages=473–485|isbn=978-1119174288}}
* {{cite book |last=Olbrycht|first=Marek Jan|year=2021|title=Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.)|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHkxEAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-9004460751}}
* {{cite book |last=Tavernier |first=Jan |year=2007 |title=Iranica in the Achaeamenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts |publisher=Peeters Publishers |isbn=978-90-429-1833-7 }}
* {{cite book |author-last =Tuplin|author-first=Christopher J.|chapter=The Bodleian Letters: Commentary|editor1-last=Tuplin |editor1-first=Christopher J. |editor2-last=Ma |editor2-first=John |title=Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context: Volume I: The Bodleian Letters |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199687640}}
* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | title = Artaxerxes | last = Schmitt | first = R. | author-link=Rüdiger Schmitt | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/artaxerxes-throne-name-of-several-persian-kings-of-the-achaemenid-dynasty | volume = 2 | fascicle = 6 | pages = 654–655 }}
* {{cite book |last=Stark|first=Sören|chapter=The Iranian East|editor-last1=Jacobs|editor-first1=Bruno|editor-last2=Rollinger|editor-first2=Robert|title=A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire |date=2021 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZA7EAAAQBAJ|pages=695–711|isbn=978-1119174288}}
* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | volume=4 | fascicle=2 | title = Bessos | last = Weiskopf | first = Michael | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/bessos-satrap-of-bactria | pages = 174–175}}
* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | title = Ardašīr I i. History | last = Wiesehöfer | first = Joseph | author-link= Josef Wiesehöfer | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ardasir-i | volume = 2 | fascicle = 4 | pages = 371–376 }}