25 Flashcards
P. Servilius v pirates
78- attacks Lycia
76 takes pamphylia
75-Cilicia
Senate vs pirates- 74
Establishes base at Cyrene,Hines command to m. Antonius
M Antonius; anti piracy campaign
74-73- focused in the west helping against sertorius
72 defeated Cretan waters
Pirates in 69
Sack Delos
Metelus vs pirates
68-67 focused around Crete
Pompey vs pirates
Pompey wins
Cause of the 3rd mithridic war
Senate refuses to ratify the treaty of dardanus after Sulla dies
Mithradates in 74
Overruns bithynia no wa Roman province, defeated Aurelius cotta at Chalcedon
Roman commander mithradates war 3
Licinius lucculus
Siege of cyzicus
Lucullus unites Roman forces to help the city leading to mithradates being routed in the winter of 74
Battle of Lemnos
Lucullus beats mithradates again
73 lucculus attack
Attacks as far a lycus in the heart of pontus
End of the third mithridates war
Roman decisively win at cabra in 72and mithridates flees to arminia leaving Rome to plunder for the next two years before turning to arminia
Tigranes accomplished
Expanded arminia to mount Lebanon with wars with Parthia, cappadocia, and the Seleucids
69 lucculus
Invades arminia, takes tigranocerta in minutes
68 lucculus
Mutiny forces him to halt his advance
Battle of Zela 67
Lucullus lieutenant triarius looses to the now re e stated mithradates
End of lucculus in Asia
Politics take his army, make Pompey in charge
Battle of nicopolis
66 Pompey routs mithradates who flees only to be trapped by his son pharnaces in the citadel of panticapaeum where his committed suicide in 63
Tigranes vs Pompey
Tigranes surrenders before a battle
Pompey from 66-65
Attacks Albanians makes a treaty with Parthia finds the caucus mountains, goes back to Pontus
Pompey in 64
Starts the year attacking the Nabateans in Arabia but then mediates a dispute between the claimants to the Jewish throne, aristobulus and John hyrcanus, leading to a capturing of Jerusalem after a 3 moth siege from the partisans of aristobulus even though he withdrew his claim
Syria
Pompey made it
Phraates
Consolidated Parthia friendly to Rome in 66 until betrayed by Pompey
Orodes 2
Successor of phraates in Parthia, anti Rome after being disrespected by gabinus during a succession crisis
Pompey vs Parthia
Pompey wants glory, Pompey attack’s Parthia in 53
Parthian line
Called arsacids
Carhhae
Crassus killed his army destroyed by the army of a Nobel from the suren family of Parthia- 53
Orodes 2 at the battle of carrhae
In a different battle against Tigranes’ successor artavasdes
