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Pompeius and the Parthians
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Abstract
The campaigns of the Romans against Mithridates Eupator led to hostilities with Tigranes, the ruler of Armenia, and thereby brought another power, the Parthians, into the ambit of their diplomacy through an ephemeral compact quickly ignored by the stronger party. Tigranes had earned signal disasters and complete humiliation. The wide territories that he had seized one after another since his accession (c.95 B.C.) were now forfeit. Syria and Cilicia he had no hope of regaining. East of the Euphrates his principal gains had accrued from Parthia, or rather from the vassals of Parthia, in the period of disturbances and debility after the death of Mithridates II (c.87 B.C.). The region Sophene which he annexed was Armenian land. Not so Atropatene, Adiabene, and Gordyene, the rulers of which he forced to own his allegiance. Tigranes took the title ‘King of Kings’: four monarchs were ever at his beck and call, whether he sat or rode.
Title: Pompeius and the Parthians
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Abstract
The campaigns of the Romans against Mithridates Eupator led to hostilities with Tigranes, the ruler of Armenia, and thereby brought another power, the Parthians, into the ambit of their diplomacy through an ephemeral compact quickly ignored by the stronger party.
Tigranes had earned signal disasters and complete humiliation.
The wide territories that he had seized one after another since his accession (c.
95 B.
C.
) were now forfeit.
Syria and Cilicia he had no hope of regaining.
East of the Euphrates his principal gains had accrued from Parthia, or rather from the vassals of Parthia, in the period of disturbances and debility after the death of Mithridates II (c.
87 B.
C.
).
The region Sophene which he annexed was Armenian land.
Not so Atropatene, Adiabene, and Gordyene, the rulers of which he forced to own his allegiance.
Tigranes took the title ‘King of Kings’: four monarchs were ever at his beck and call, whether he sat or rode.
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