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    CONFERENCE TO LOOK INTO TIGRAN THE GREAT RULE

    Armenpress
    Sept 5, 2005

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Academy of Sciences
    in cooperation with the Church and Armenian Educational and Cultural
    Union will hold a conference on November 2-3 to mark the enthronement
    of one of the greatest Armenian kings, Tigran the Great that was in
    95 BC.

    The conference titled Tigran the Great: Armenia in the Epoch of
    Hellenism will try to look into his role in the consolidation of
    Armenian state and nation. Tigran the Great ruled from 96 BC to
    56 BC and his rule was described by historians as "renaissance of
    Armenia." Tigran proclaimed himself "King of Kings." Under Tigran II,
    Armenia grew to a great degree of military strength and political
    influence.

    According to the Greek biographer Plutarch, the Roman general Lucullos
    said of this king, "In Armenia, Tigran is seated surrounded with
    that power which has wrested Asia from the Parthians, which carries
    Greek colonies into Media, subdues Syria and Palestine and cuts off
    the Seleucids." And Cicero, the Roman orator and politician, adds,
    "He made the Republic of Rome tremble before the powers of his arms."
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