Nero crowns Tiridates I in Rome
Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, travelled to Rome and received the crown of Armenia from Nero’s hands in the Forum, sealing the compromise that ended the war over Armenia: its king would be a Parthian prince, but one approved by Rome.
- Date
- 66year known
- Place
- Rometoday: Rome, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Nero, Tiridates I of Armenia, Kingdom of Armenia, Roman Empire, Parthian Empire
- Threads
- Europe in the Roman age (1st–5th c.)
- Also known as
- Golden Day; Tiridates’ visit to Rome; Золотой день; Визит Трдата в Рим
Under the agreement reached with Corbulo at Rhandeia in 63, Tiridates had laid his diadem before a statue of Nero and undertaken to receive it back only from the emperor himself. He set out with his family, a retinue of nobles and magi and 3,000 Parthian horsemen; as a Zoroastrian priest he would not defile water by a sea voyage, and the overland journey through Thrace and Illyria took nine months. Nero met him at Neapolis and honoured him with games at Puteoli.
Tiridates reached Rome in 66. The day after his arrival, Nero in triumphal dress received the kneeling king in the Forum and placed the diadem on his head. The festivities included a “Golden Day” in the Theatre of Pompey, gilded for the occasion. Nero closed the doors of the Temple of Janus as a sign of universal peace and showered Tiridates with gifts — worth 200 million sesterces according to Cassius Dio, more than 100 million according to Suetonius; the king took Roman craftsmen home to rebuild Artaxata, which he renamed Neronia. Some Roman writers held that Nero had in effect ceded Armenia to Parthia, but the settlement kept the peace between the two empires for some fifty years, until Trajan invaded Armenia in 114.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Roman–Parthian War of 58–6358–63 · Middle East and Egyptunder the Treaty of Rhandeia Tiridates received his crown from Nero
Related events
- Trajan’s Parthian campaign114–117 · Middle East and Egyptthe peace lasted until Trajan invaded Armenia in 114
Same participants
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- Gan Ying’s mission to Da Qin (Rome)97 · Central and Northern Asiavia Parthian Empire
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Same place
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Adjacent events in the thread
- Siege of JerusalemApril 70 – 8 September 70 · Middle East and Egypt
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within a year of this event
Eastern Europe
- Plautius Silvanus lifts the Scythian siege of Chersonesusbetween 61 and 66
- The Alans appear on the Don and in the North Caucasusbetween 50 and 72
- Zarubintsy culturec. 200 BC – c. 200
Balkans and Anatolia
- Dioscorides’ De materia medicabetween 50 and 70
Middle East and Egypt
- Reign of Vologases I51–78
- First Jewish–Roman War66 – between 73 and 74
- Periplus of the Erythraean Sea40s … 70s
- Hero of Alexandria’s aeolipilebetween 50 and 100
Africa
- Adulis and Aksum in the Periplus40s … 70s
- Temple of Apedemak at Naqabetween 1 BC and AD 70
Central and Northern Asia
- The burials of Tillya Tepe (the Bactrian Gold)between 16 and 100
South Asia
- Kushans conquer Gandhara and Taxilabetween 50 and 70
- Gandharan art: the first images of the Buddhabetween 30 BC and AD 100
- Heyday of Indo-Roman trade: Muziris and Arikameduc. 30 BC – c. 250
East Asia
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Founding of Funan: Kaundinya and Queen Liuyebetween 1 and 100
- Óc Eo, the port of Funanbetween 1 and 100 – between 601 and 700
- Sa Huỳnh culturec. 1000 BC – c. 200
North America
- Hopewell traditionbetween 200 and 100 BC – c. 500
- Late Basketmaker II erac. 50 – c. 500
Latin America
- Monte Albán II: the Zapotec state expandsc. 100 BC – c. 200
- Rise of Teotihuacanc. 1 – c. 250
- Nazca culture and the Nazca Linesbetween 200 and 100 BC – between 500 and 800
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Tiridates I of Armenia
- Wikipedia (English): Nero
- Wikipedia (Russian): Трдат I
- Wikipedia (Russian): Нерон
- Cassius Dio. Roman History, LXIII.1–7.
- Suetonius. Nero, 13, 30.
- Hovannisian R. G. (ed.) The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Vol. 1. — New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
- Champlin E. Nero. — Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.