After the death of King Cambyses, a userper pretending to be Cyrus' son Bardiya appeared, Darius challenged and disposed of him, and as a relative by marriage to the royal family, took over the throne.
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He was murdered, possibly by generals who were jealous of his power, but most likely was killed by a mercenary that was hired by Darius. Darius was the Persian King.
Darius the Mede is known in The Bible record in connection to two famous incidents involving the prophet Daniel. Darius came to power when Belshazzar was deposed after the famous Writing On The Wall incident, and Daniel In The Lion's Den occurred during Darius's reign.
He was a great ruler, but his attitude was unjust to the power he had conqured
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Exercising his power of king through his generals.
Darius' own nobles murdered him to try to come to terms with Alexander. He was not impressed and gave Darius a proper burial, and executed the generals to show what disloyalty brought.
In the Behistun Inscription, Darius justifies his assumption of power by claiming that the crushed rebellions were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death. Darius claims himself to be the true ruler of the Persion Empire through the "grace of Ahura Mazda."