Ariarathes X.

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Ariarathes X. Eusebes Philadelphos († around 41 BC or 36 BC) was briefly king of Cappadocia .

Ariarathes X on drachma
Back of the drachm of Ariarathes X.

Life

Ariarathes X. was the son of the Cappadocian king Ariobarzanes II. This found 52/51 BC. By a conspiracy and he was followed by his eldest son Ariobarzanes III. But soon after he took office, a party wanted to replace him with his younger brother Ariarathes X as king (51 BC). Gaius Iulius Caesar provided 47 BC. For clear rule in Cappadocia. Presumably he made Ariarathes X. heir to the throne of his brother and sub-king of a part of Lesser Armenia, which the Roman general at that time became the kingdom of Ariobarzanes III. added. 45 BC BC Ariarathes X. complained to Caesar in Rome that he no longer had any dominion; therefore he is said to have asked the dictator for a kingdom, according to the speaker Marcus Tullius Cicero .

42 BC Was Ariobarzanes III. executed on the orders of the Caesar murderer Gaius Cassius Longinus for lack of support. Now Ariarathes X became the new king of Cappadocia, but Archelaus contested the throne for him. After the Caesar murderers were defeated in the Battle of Philippi (October 42 BC) by the triumvirs Octavian and Marcus Antonius , the latter came in 41 BC. To the Orient to regulate the situation anew there. According to the military historian Appian , Antony supported Archelaus at the time in the controversy for the throne and rejected the claims of Ariarathes X., who was probably killed in the process. In contrast, Cassius mentions Dio Antonius' award in connection with the political reorganization of the Orient by the triumvir in 36 BC. The ancient historian Benedikt Niese gives preference to the date of Appian. In contrast, the Cleopatra biographer Christoph Schäfer believes that Antonius 41 BC Chr. Ariarathes X. not yet driven from the throne, but only five years later, because Ariarathes X. probably made common cause with these enemies of Rome during the dangerous incursion of the Parthians into Asia Minor (40/39 BC).

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The epithets Eusebes Philadelphos are printed on coins of Ariarathes X.
  2. ↑ Cicero , ad familiares 15, 2, 6.
  3. ↑ Alexandrian War 66, 6; see B. Niese, RE II 1, 820.
  4. ↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 13, 2, 2.
  5. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 5, 7.
  6. ^ Cassius Dio 49, 32, 3.
  7. ↑ B. Niese, RE II, 1, col. 821.
  8. ↑ C. Schäfer, Cleopatra , 2006, p. 122f. and 151.
predecessor Office successor
Ariobarzanes III. King of Cappadocia
42–36 BC Chr. 		Archelaus
personal data
SURNAME Ariarathes X.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ariarathes X. Eusebes Philadelphos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Cappadocia
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 41 BC BC or around 36 BC Chr.