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'''Aretas III Philhellenos''' was a Nabatean King, from 87 to 62 BCE.
 
See [[Nabatean Kings]]
 
==Overview==
 
Aretas III succeeded his father [[Obodas I]] upon his death in battle.
 
Under his rule, the Nabatean kingdom reached its peak. Aretas' greatest success was the conquest of [[Damascus]] from the Seleucids in 85 BCE. Damascus was then one of the major commercial towns of the Middle East.
 
Aretas renamed himself "Philhellenos." He reshape his kindgom as a small Hellenistic Kingdom, adopting Greek as the official language and building marvelous monuments in Hellenistic style.
 
In 82 BCE Aretas defeated [[Alexander Jamnaeus]] in the [[Battle of Adida]], but in a counterattack lost territories in Moab and Gilead. 
 
Areats' power in the region was challenged by the invasion of the Armenian King [[Tigranes the Great]], who in 72 BCE pushed the Nabateans out of [[Damascus]]. Only the Roman intervention caused [[Tigranes the Great]] to withdraw in 69 BCE and allowed the Nabateans to regain control of the city.
 
Aretas then tried to take advantage of the conflict between [[John Hyrcanus II]] and [[Aristobulus II]] to expand his influence in Judea. He supported the defeated [[John Hyrcanus II|Hyrcanus]], allowing him to flee to [[Petra]] and advanced against [[Jerusalem]] with his army, besieging the city for several months. When the Roman general [[Scaurus]] ordered Aretas to withdraw, [[Aristobulus II]] attacked and defeated the Nabatean army on their journey back to Nabatea. [[Scaurus]] marched on [[Petra]] and forced Aretas to pay the tribute and recognize the Roman supremacy on the region.
 
==Aretas III in Scholarship==
 
==Aretas III in Fiction==
 
==Related categories==
*[[John Hyrcanus II]] / [[Aristobulus II]] / [[Scaurus]]
 
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretas_III Wikipedia]  




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