CONFERENCE TO LOOK INTO TIGRAN THE GREAT RULE

Armenpress
Sept 5, 2005

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Academy of Sciences
in cooperation with the Church and Armenian Educational and Cultural
Union will hold a conference on November 2-3 to mark the enthronement
of one of the greatest Armenian kings, Tigran the Great that was in
95 BC.

The conference titled Tigran the Great: Armenia in the Epoch of
Hellenism will try to look into his role in the consolidation of
Armenian state and nation. Tigran the Great ruled from 96 BC to
56 BC and his rule was described by historians as “renaissance of
Armenia.” Tigran proclaimed himself “King of Kings.” Under Tigran II,
Armenia grew to a great degree of military strength and political
influence.

According to the Greek biographer Plutarch, the Roman general Lucullos
said of this king, “In Armenia, Tigran is seated surrounded with
that power which has wrested Asia from the Parthians, which carries
Greek colonies into Media, subdues Syria and Palestine and cuts off
the Seleucids.” And Cicero, the Roman orator and politician, adds,
“He made the Republic of Rome tremble before the powers of his arms.”