Darius III, king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great and then killed by his own men in 330 B.C.

Darius III (Darius Codomannus) becomes king of Persia in 335 BCE having been raised to the throne by the eunuch Bagoas; he was a member of the Achaemenid dynasty; Darius is defeated by Alexander the Great at the battle of Issus in 333 BCE and at the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE despite the fact that the Persian forces greatly outnumbered Alexander's army; in 330 BCE, after fleeing from Alexander to Ecbatana and then eastward to Bactria, Darius is murdered by the satrap of Bactria, Bessus; Darius' death marks the end of the Persian empire.

The King of Media who took over the kingdom.

Darius (pronounced ) is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Taito in 1986. It is the first game in the Darius series.

The Darius series is a series of horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up video games, released by Taito. When it started, its primary difference from other top first-generation scrolling shooters, such as R-Type and Gradius, was the ability to select different levels on the way to the final areas. The primary villans are mostly large fish or crustacean in form.

A good friend and fellow wizard on a social MOO and one of the few friends I have who is truly conservative, although I am convinced he's really a closet hippy. He on the other hand is quite firm in his belief that I'm really a conservative who just hasn't realized it yet. We don't get nearly enough time together to talk.

Darius is a fictional character from , portrayed by actor Werner Stocker. He first appeared in the season 1 episode "Band of Brothers" (1993) and is featured in four subsequent episodes of the same season, as well as one Highlander novel. A two thousand years old Immortal living as a monk in a modest chapel in Paris, France, he is a friend and mentor of protagonist Duncan Mac Leod.