Category:Tigranes the Great (subject)

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Tigranes the Great (Tigranes II; 95-55 BCE) was an Armenian King, who threatened to invade Israel at the time of the Hasmonean Queen Salome Alexandra.

Biography

Under his leadership, Armenia became for a short time the strongest empire in the Middle East and a menace to Roman power in the region.

At the peak of its power, the Armenian Empire included the regions of Media, Assyria, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Cilicia, Syria and Phoenicia. The Hasmonean State had to pay tribute to the king and was facing invasion, when the Roman intervention forced Tigranes to withdraw.

Tigranes in ancient sources

Tigranes in Scholarship

Tigranes in Fiction

Tigranes might be the "Nebuchadnezzar" of the Book of Judith, whose invasion threatened the independence of the Judean State and was opposed only by the intervention of the devout and strong widow "Judith" (=Salome Alexandra).

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