Tigranes
Family: Armenian · Role: king of Armenia · First appears: Book I, Chapter 5
Tigranes, king of Armenia, abandoned his siege of Cleopatra at Ptolemais after agreements and presents from Alexandra, amid domestic tumults caused by Lucullus’s expedition into Armenia: “Tigranes soon arose from the siege”. In the following chapter, he fought against Pompey as an enemy.
Not long afterward, Antony captured his son Artabazes and presented him, along with his money and spoils, to Cleopatra. Later, Tigranes is identified as one of the two sons of Alexander and Glaphyra, alongside his brother Alexander. He is also linked in a guardianship arrangement with Pheroras and Archelaus, who are named in connection with supporting the brothers.
Relationship record
Life events
- Tigranes abandoned his siege of Cleopatra after agreements and presents from Alexandra.(Book I, Chapter 5 · 📍 Ptolemais)
- With: Cleopatra
- “Tigranes soon arose from the siege”
- Antony returned from Parthia with Artabazes captive and presented him, his money, and his spoils to Cleopatra.(Book I, Chapter 18 · 📍 Euphrates)
Book I, Chapter 5
- with Lucullus (Lucullus's expedition into Armenia affected Tigranes's military situation.) “Accordingly, Tigranes soon arose from the siege, by reason of those domestic tumults which happened upon Lucullus's expedition into Armenia.”
- with Cleopatra (interaction) “She also prevailed with Tigranes, king of Armenia, who lay with his troops about Ptolemais, and besieged Cleopatra”
Book I, Chapter 6
- enemies with Pompey “when he fought against Tigranes”
Book I, Chapter 18
- child: Artabazes “and led with him Artabazes, Tigranes's son, captive, as a present for Cleopatra;”
Book I, Chapter 28
- parent: Alexander (unresolved ch028) “for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra, Tigranes and Alexander;”
- guardian: Pheroras “I therefore betroth thy daughter, Pheroras, to the elder of these brethren, the children of Alexander, that thou mayst be obliged to take care of them.”
- guardian: Archelaus (son of Herod and Malthace) “if Alexander's sons should have both Archelaus [a king], and Pheroras a tetrarch, to support them.”
- parent: Glaphyra “for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra, Tigranes and Alexander”
- siblings with Alexander (unresolved ch028) “for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra, Tigranes and Alexander”
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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.