Artaxerxes II

Abstract

Artaxerxes II (r. 404–358 bce ) was the longest‐reigning monarch of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Victorious over the rebellion of his brother Cyrus the Younger in 401, he engaged in major building activities at Susa and imposed the King's Peace on Persia's Greek periphery (386), but was unsuccessful in efforts to reclaim the breakaway province of Egypt.