Tiridates

Family: Armenian · Role: king of Armenia · First appears: Nero 13

Life events

• Nero invited Tiridates, king of Armenia, to Rome with generous promises.(Nero 13 · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Nero
  • “This personage, who was king of Armenia, he invited to Rome by very liberal promises.”
• Tiridates approached Nero and submitted himself at the emperor’s feet.(Nero 13 · 📍 the forum)
  • With: Nero
  • “Upon Tiridates advancing towards him, on a stage made shelving for the purpose, he permitted him to throw himself at his feet”
• Nero replaced Tiridates’s turban with a crown at the king’s request.(Nero 13 · 📍 the forum)
  • With: Nero
  • “The emperor then, at the king’s request, took the turban from his head, and replaced it by a crown”
• Nero presented Tiridates with upwards of a million sesterces.(Nero 30)
  • With: Nero
  • “and at his departure, presented him with upwards of a million.”

Nero 13

• with Nero (Nero invited Tiridates to Rome as a royal guest.) “This personage, who was king of Armenia, he invited to Rome by very liberal promises.”

Nero 30

• patron: Nero “He spent upon Tiridates eight hundred thousand sesterces a day, a sum almost incredible; and at his departure, presented him with upwards of a million.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.