Artabannes

Artabannes (also Arrabannes ; † 370 AD) was an Armenian general and politician.

Life

Artabannes was a general of the Armenian king Arshak II. He fled to the Persian great king Shapur II. After his former master was murdered by them, he was appointed governor of Armenia together with the eunuch Kylakes . Shapur II entrusted the two defectors with the complete submission of their homeland. Artabannes and Kylakes then besieged Pharandzem and Pap , the widow and young son of the dead king, in the fortified city of Artogerassa (in Greek Artaxata , near today's Artaschat ). But when the siege remained unsuccessful into the winter, they secretly got in touch with the Armenian queen widow. They let themselves be moved by her to betray the Persian army entrusted to them, which they had agreed to put down by a nightly sortie.

Pap fled to the Romans on his mother's advice in AD 368 and was warmly welcomed by Emperor Valens . Meanwhile, Artabannes and Kylakes ruled together with the queen widow of Armenia, but soon asked Emperor Valens through envoys that Pap should be enthroned as the new king. Pap was returned to Armenia by the Roman general Terentius and installed in his kingdom, but without the title of king. Artabannes and Kylakes continued to rule in his name. They soon had to flee with him before another invasion by the Persians into the mountains and hid there for five months, but returned in 370 AD after the withdrawal of the enemy forces and now received Roman support. Then Shapur II succeeded , through secret messages, in winning Pap for an alliance with the Persians and inciting against his overpowering ministers. Pap had them insidiously murdered and sent their heads to the Persian king.

literature

Otto Seeck : Artabannes 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 1290 f.
Arrabannes , in: Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris (Eds.): The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire , Vol. 1, 1971
Michael P. Streck : Artabannes 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 41.

Remarks

↑ Ammianus Marcellinus , Res gestae 27, 12, 5-8; Compare Faustus of Byzantium , Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 4, 55 (who reports the siege of Artogerassa very differently from Ammianus Marcellinus and instead of Artabannes and Kylakes names the Persian military leaders Zik and Karen) and Moses von Choren , History of Armenia 3, 35.
↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 9 f .; compare Faustus of Byzantium, Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 5, 1 and Moses of Choren, History of Armenia 3, 36.
↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 11 ff; among others
↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 14; Faustus of Byzantium, Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 5, 32.

personal data
SURNAME	Artabannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arrabannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century or 4th century
DATE OF DEATH	370

[1] Ammianus Marcellinus , Res gestae 27, 12, 5-8; Compare Faustus of Byzantium , Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 4, 55 (who reports the siege of Artogerassa very differently from Ammianus Marcellinus and instead of Artabannes and Kylakes names the Persian military leaders Zik and Karen) and Moses von Choren , History of Armenia 3, 35.

[2] Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 9 f .; compare Faustus of Byzantium, Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 5, 1 and Moses of Choren, History of Armenia 3, 36.

[3] Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 11 ff; among others

[4] Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 27, 12, 14; Faustus of Byzantium, Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk ' 5, 32.