Some modern scholars have doubted that such a king reigned at all. [51], Tigranes is mentioned in Macrobii, a Roman essay detailing the famous long livers of the day, which is attributed to Lucian. [31] Tigranes decided not to meet the invasion in the field but instead ensured that his capital, Artaxata, was well defended and withdrew to the hill country. In 12 AD, Erato and Tigranes were overthrown. ", https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4kQUU_bpOsC&pg=PR24&dq=%22Sea+to+sea+Armenia%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P30EUtCQJpKo4AO894HgAg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Sea%20to%20sea%20Armenia%22&f=false, "Armenia and Iran ii. Pompey received him graciously and gave him back his kingdom (in exchange for Syria and other southern conquests). At its height, his empire extended from the Pontic Alps (in modern north-eastern Turkey) to Mesopotamia, and from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. Tigranes' and Mithridates' combined Armeno-Pontic army of 70,000 men formed up to face them but were resoundingly defeated. Tigranes II. Tigranes was the son or brother of Artavasdes I and a member of the dynasty founded in the early 2nd century by Artaxias. Tigranes was named in honour of his mother's Armenian and Hellenic lineage. In 83 the Syrians, tired of Seleucid dynastic struggles, offered him their crown, and in 78–77 he reoccupied Cappadocia. von Pontos stieg er für kurze Zeit zum mächtigsten Monarchen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum auf, wurde dann jedoch von … On October 6, 69 BC, Tigranes' much larger force was decisively defeated by the Roman army under Lucullus in the Battle of Tigranocerta. He subjected to his authority the Atropatenians, and the Goryaeans (on the Upper Tigris); by force of arms he obtained possession also of the rest of Mesopotamia and, after crossing the Euphrates, of Syria and Phoenicea. Im Bündnis mit Mithridates VI. [24][25] After this defeat Tigranes withdrew north to Armenia to regroup which left Lucullus free to put Tigranocerta under siege.[26]. [22] Charles Rollin, in his Ancient History, says: Tigranes, to whom Lucullus had sent an ambassador, though of no great power in the beginning of his reign, had enlarged it so much by a series of successes, of which there are few examples, that he was commonly surnamed "King of Kings." Artavasdes I was forced to give the Parthians Tigranes as a hostage, who was either his son or nephew. н.э. [9][10] Tigranes ceded an area called "seventy valleys" in the Caspiane to Mithridates II, either as a pledge or because Mithridates II demanded it. As she was probably the mother of Orodes I (r. 80–75 BC)[46], then Ariazate could not have been the daughter of Cleopatra who married Tigranes only in 94 BCE at the age of 15 or 16. He was given as a hostage to the Parthian king Mithradates II, but later he purchased his freedom by ceding 70 valleys bordering on Media, in northwestern Iran. Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great (Armenian: Տիգրան Մեծ, Tigran Mets; Ancient Greek: Τιγράνης ὁ Μέγας Tigránes ho Mégas; Latin: Tigranes Magnus) (140 – 55 BC) was King of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state to Rome's east. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. After Tigranes and his brother arrived in Cappadocia, they disowned their Jewish descent and religion and embraced their Greek descent and religion. The House Of Seleucus V2 by Edwyn Robert Bevan. Tigranes ruled about 10 years longer over Armenia, as a Roman client-king, though he lost all his conquests except Sophene and Gordyene. über Großarmenien. [36][37] The eldest son, Zariadres, according to Appian and Valerius Maximus rebelled against Tigranes and was killed during a battle (possibly late 90s BCE). A meeting with Rome, which had already formed a “Province of Asia” in Asia Minor, became inevitable…. Birley, Anatolica: studies in Strabo, Oxford University Press, 1995, A.E. Tigranes then began war with the Parthians, whose empire (southeast of the Caspian Sea) was temporarily weakened after the death of Mithradates II (about 87) by internal dissensions and invasions of the Scythians. Dans l'alliance qui fut alors conclus entre les deux souverains, Mithridates faisait un peu figure client de Tigran. [15] Artaxata became Tigranes' capital. Although it has been proposed that Tigranes I reigned from 123 On October 6, 68 BC, the Romans approached the old capital of Artaxata. [52], In The Art of War (1521), Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli attributes Tigranes' military failure to his excessive reliance on his cavalry.