Category:Tigranes the Great (subject)
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).
Pages in category "Tigranes the Great (subject)"
The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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- Tigran the Great (1940 Armen), book
- Tigran B. yev Hrome (1940 Manandyan), book
- Тигран второй и Рим (1943 Manandyan), book (Russian ed.)
- Tigrane II & Rome (1963 Manandyan), book (French ed.)
- Hoard of Copper Coins of Tigranes the Great (1991 Bedoukian), book
- Roma - Armenia (1999 Mutafian), edited volume