Orontes III.

  • Orontes III. (Armenian: Երուանդ, Greek: Ὀρόντης; † after 280 BC), was a satrap, and then King of Armenia of the dynasty of Orontids.

He was the son of king Orontes II. Orontes III. stood as satrap of Armenia 317 BC, first under a nominal supremacy of the successor ( Successors ) of Alexander the Great. First, under Antigonus Monophthalmos and after his death in the battle of Ipsos 301 BC under Seleucus. When, after his assassination 281 BC became the rule of the Seleucids in Asia Minor to waver, took advantage of the Orontes III. the situation to make himself independent. The historian Diodorus called him from this time, therefore, the "King ". Furthermore, he supported the prince of Cappadocia, Ariarathes II, in his independence efforts by the local Seleucid strategists Amyntas defeated together.

His descendant Orontes was around 200 BC the first independent rulers (Eastern) Armenia.

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  • Appian Syriaca 55
  • Diodorus 31, 19, 4-5
  • Polyainos 4, 8, 3
Orontid Dynasty Seleucus I Nicator Seleucid Empire Ariarathes II of Cappadocia Strategos Orontes IV
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