Phraates V of Parthia

Phraatakes (the small Phraates, also: Phraates V. ) was a Parthian king who ruled from 2 BC to about 4 BC. He was the son of Phraates IV and Musa. Musa had made in the year 2 BC poison her husband Phraates IV, and then continued her son on the throne. In the year 1 BC, the Parthians and the Armenians expelled a Roman candidate for the throne of Armenia. Emperor Augustus sent his grandson Gaius Caesar then with an army to Armenia to get things in order. But Phraates and Gaius made ​​peace at a banquet on the Euphrates.

In year 2, AD Phraates married his mother Musa, what were plenty occasion for polemics among the Romans. They both appear together on coins. In the year 4 AD Phraates and Musa disappear from the political scene. About their further fate is not known.