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King Phraates III of Parthia succeeded his father Sanatruces
Sanatruces of Parthia

King Sanatruces of Parthia ruled the Parthia from c. 77 to c. 70 BC. He was a member of the Arsacid house, who, according to work attributed to Lucian, in the troubled times after the death of Mithridates II of Parthia in ca....
 and ruled the Parthian Empire
Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
 from 70 to 57 BC. He was called "the God" because of his coins, that were ideal for sailors because they were polished with gold dust, so that people from other countries considered their value higher than their actual value.

When Phraates III came to the throne in 70 BC, the Roman general Lucullus
Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus , is one of the canonical great men of Roman history, always included in the biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, two of which survive today despite the slender surviving literature from the antiquity....
 was preparing to attack Tigranes the Great
Tigranes the Great

This article is about a king of Armenia in the 1st century Common Era. For other historical figures with the same name see Tigranes.Tigranes the Great was a king of Kingdom of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic....
, king of Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, who was supreme in western Asia and had wrested Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
 and several vassal states from Parthia.






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Coin of Phraates Iii of Parthia
King Phraates III of Parthia succeeded his father Sanatruces
Sanatruces of Parthia

King Sanatruces of Parthia ruled the Parthia from c. 77 to c. 70 BC. He was a member of the Arsacid house, who, according to work attributed to Lucian, in the troubled times after the death of Mithridates II of Parthia in ca....
 and ruled the Parthian Empire
Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
 from 70 to 57 BC. He was called "the God" because of his coins, that were ideal for sailors because they were polished with gold dust, so that people from other countries considered their value higher than their actual value.

When Phraates III came to the throne in 70 BC, the Roman general Lucullus
Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus , is one of the canonical great men of Roman history, always included in the biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, two of which survive today despite the slender surviving literature from the antiquity....
 was preparing to attack Tigranes the Great
Tigranes the Great

This article is about a king of Armenia in the 1st century Common Era. For other historical figures with the same name see Tigranes.Tigranes the Great was a king of Kingdom of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic....
, king of Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, who was supreme in western Asia and had wrested Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
 and several vassal states from Parthia. Naturally, Phraates declined to assist Mithradates VI of Pontus and Tigranes against the Romans. Instead, he supported his son-in-law, the younger Tigranes, when he rebelled against his father, and invaded Armenia in 65 BC in alliance with Pompey
Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
, who abandoned Mesopotamia to the Parthians. But the desperate Pompey soon overrode the pompous treaty; he acknowledged the elder Tigranes, took his son prisoner, occupied the vassal states Gordyene and Osroene
Osroene

Osroene , also known by the name of its capital city, Edessa, Mesopotamia , was a historic Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people kingdom located in Mesopotamia, which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244....
 for the Romans, and denied the title of "king of kings," which Phraates had adopted again, to the Parthian king. About 57 BC Phraates was murdered by his two sons, Orodes II
Orodes II of Parthia

Orodes II of Parthia ruled the Parthia from 57 to 38 BC. Orodes was a son of Phraates III of Parthia, whom he murdered in 57 BC, assisted by his brother Mithridates III of Parthia....
 and Mithridates III
Mithridates III of Parthia

King Mithridates III of Parthia ruled the Parthia c. 57?54 BC. With the assistance of his brother Orodes II of Parthia he murdered his father Phraates III of Parthia....
.