page_title: Artaxerxes II of Persia
section_title: Rise to power
hierarchical_section_title: Artaxerxes II of Persia / Rise to power
caption_attribution_description: English: Artaxerxes II relief portrait detail
context_page_description: Artaxerxes II Mnemon was the King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 404 BC until his death in 358 BC. He was a son of Darius II and Parysatis.
  Greek authors gave him the epithet "Mnemon", meaning "remembering"; "having a good memory."
context_section_description: Darius II died in 404 BC, just before the final victory of the Egyptian general, Amyrtaeus, over the Persians in Egypt.
  His successor was his eldest son Arsames, who was crowned as Artaxerxes II in Pasargadae.
caption: Portrait of Artaxerxes II
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