Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia

Ariobarzanes II Philopator, son of Ariobarzanes I. Philorhomaios and Athenaïs Philostorgus, was of 63 or 62 BC BC to about 51 AD the king of Cappadocia. He was with Athenaïs, probably a daughter of Mithridates VI. of Pontus, married. Only two places in the writings of the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero deliver messages about the government of Ariobarzanes II Accordingly, he had enemies in his realm, he is 57 BC by bribing the Roman proconsul of Syria, Aulus Gabinius, from the neck managed. 51 BC Cicero should manage as governor of Cilicia. Shortly before the speakers arrived in his province, fell Ariobarzanes II a conspiracy perhaps anti-Roman -minded enemies victim. His son Ariobarzanes III. Eusebes Philorhomaios became the new king of Cappadocia. Ariobarzanes II also had a younger son Ariarathes X, who a short time after the removal Ariobarzanes III. reigned.