Vonones I of Parthia

Vonones I. († 19 ) was a Parthian king, who reigned from ca AD 6-12. He was the eldest son of Phraates IV

After Orodes III. had been murdered, asked the Parthian nobles in Rome for a son of Phraates IV, who should ascend the throne in Parthia. King Phraates IV had in fact sent on the advice of his wife Musa in the year 10 BC, four of his sons to Rome for safekeeping. The Roman Emperor Augustus then sent Vonones to Parthia.

The new king, however, was now fully Romanized in his life, which earned him the reputation of a slave of the Romans. So rose by 10 AD the ruler of the Parthian Artabanus, who eventually in the year 12 AD could tear the crown completely in itself after a battle. Vonones then fled to Armenia, where he became king. So he founded the Armenian Arsacid dynasty. On Artabanus ' insistence but was deposed by Augustus and sent to Syria into exile. Later he took his stay in Cilicia, where he was killed in the year 19 while trying to escape.

Sources and Literature

  • Tacitus: Annals. II, 2-4, 68
  • Malcolm A. R. Colledge: The Parthians. Thames and Hudson, London 1967, p 48
Phraates IV of Parthia Orodes III of Parthia Artabanus III of Parthia History of Armenia Arsacid dynasty of Armenia List of Parthian kings
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