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Artaxerxes
II Mnemon: Achaemenid
king of the Persian Empire, ruled from 404 to 358.
Relatives:
- Father: Darius II Nothus
- Mother: Parysatis
- First wife: Statira (daughter of Hydarnes)
- Second wife: name not known
Main deeds:
- Real name: Arsaces
- Accession on 3 April 404
- 404: Outbreak of civil war: Artaxerxes' brother Cyrus the Younger revolts
- 404: In Egypt: revolt of Amyrtaeus
- 401: Battle of Cunaxa: Cyrus army defeats Artaxerxes' army, but Cyrus dies in action
- 401/400: Return of the Ten Thousand
- 396: The Spartan king Agesilaus invades Asia
- 395: The Athenian admiral Conon, commanding a
Persian navy, captures Rhodes and opens a naval offensive against
Sparta; execution of Tissaphernes
- 394: Recall of Agesilaus
- 386: King's Peace
- 385 and 383: Pharnabazus and Tithraustes lead an army against Egypt, but the Egyptian king Achoris is able to ward off the invasion
- Early 370's?: Wars against the Cadusians
- 373: Failed attempt to reconquer Egypt, where Nectanebo I has become pharaoh
- c.370: Revolt of Datames
- 367: Beginning of the Satrap's Revolt: Ariobarzanes revolts in Hellespontine Phrygia; Maussolus of Caria, Orontes of Armenia, Autophradates of Lydia, and Datames join him
- 362: Assassination of Datames; end of the Satrap's Revolt
- Death in February or the first half of March 358
Sources:
- Ecbatana: A2Ha, A2Hb, A2Hc
- Persepolis: A2Pa
- Susa: A2Sa, A2Sb, A2Sc, A2Sd
- Ctesias, History of the Persians
- Diodorus of Sicily, Library of World History, Book 14-15
- Plutarch of Chaeronea, Life of Artaxerxes
- Thucydides
- Xenophon, Anabasis and Hellenica
Buildings:
- Persepolis: Tomb
- Babylon
- Ecbatana
- Susa: repairs and a new palace
Literature
Succeeded by: Artaxerxes III Ochus |
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