Artaxerxes II Mnemon

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)
- Sons: Darius, Artaxerxes III Ochus, Ariaspes
- Daughter: Apama (married to Pharnabazus), Rhodogyne (married to Orontes), Amestris, Atossa
Second wife: name not known
- Son: Arsames

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 370s?: 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 Satraps' 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

R.J. van der Spek, "The chronology of the wars of Artaxerxes II in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries" in: Maria Brosius & Amélie Kuhrt (eds.), Studies in Persian History: essays in memory of David M. Lewis (= Achaemenid History XI), Leiden 1998, pp. 239-256
H. Hunger & R.J. van der Spek, "An astronomical diary concerning Artaxerxes II (year 42 = 363-2 BC). Military operations in Babylonia" in: Arta 2006.002

Succeeded by: Artaxerxes III Ochus