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- king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)
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- (Darius Nothus) (423-404 B.C.), the younger _Cyrus_ undertook to dethrone his brother _Artaxerxes II_., and for that purpose organized, in Asia Outline of Universal History
- The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
- Tachos (360-359), his successor, attempted to invade the Syrian territory, but, as a result of rivalries and dissensions between himself and his namesake Tachos, whom he had appointed as regent, he was supplanted by Nectanebo II (358-342), a cousin of Tachos the regent, and took refuge with Artaxerxes II, at whose court he died. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone. George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes
- When Artaxerxes II, surnamed Ochus, invaded the Delta, Nectanebo II, King of Egypt, could find no safer refuge that Ethiopia, and in the days of the Ptolemies, one of its kings, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- Darius II died at Babylon, and Artaxerxes II promoted in the city the worship of Anaitis. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
- At a later stage of his reign, Artaxerxes II was forced to invade the country of the Cadusians again.
- British scholar Timothy Mitford believes he has found the spot from which a Greek army first sighted the Black Sea during its flight from the forces of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in 401 B.C. Xenophon's Retreat
- These at last obtained an interdict from the usurper Smerdis the Magian (called Artaxerxes in Ezr Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- On his death, in 404, Arsaces, his eldest son, ascended the throne as Artaxerxes II, and quelled revolts in Cyrus, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip