General Notes

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Death: in 37 - 36 BC [murderd by his son, Phraates IV] 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 57 - 37/36 BC, King of Parthia 1
Note:
Orodes II (d. 37/36 BC), king of Parthia (reigned c. 57-37/36 BC) who
helped his brother Mithradates III murder their father, Phraates III, and
in turn supplanted Mithradates.
When Mithradates occupied Seleucia and Babylon, Orodes stormed those
towns, immediately executing his brother. No less ruthless to his
attendants, he put to death the general who in 53 BC had crushed the
Romans under the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus at Carrhae in northern
Mesopotamia. Parthian raids into Roman Syria were checked by the death of
Pacorus, Orodes' favourite son and perhaps joint king. Orodes, stunned by
the loss, was murdered in turn by another son, who became Phraates IV.