» This article's about Achaemenes, legendary founder of the first Persian dynasty. For other uses of the name, see Achaemenes (disambiguation). Achaemenēs (Haxāmaniš and 675 BC. On the etymology of this name there're various accounts. The traditional interpretation's “having a friend’s mind,” based on indo-Iranian etymological studies of Greek historians. Modern scholars don't consider this to be correct and have proposed that Haxāmaniš means character… (More on Achaemenes)