- Sanatruces II of Parthia
Sanatruces II of Parthia, the son of Mithridates IV, was a pretender to the throne of the
Parthian Empire during the disputed reign of his uncle Osroes I.When Osroes was deposed by the invading
Roman Emperor Trajan in116 in favor of the puppet ruler Parthamaspates, Sanatruces and his father, Osroes' brother Mithridates, together claimed the diadem and continued the struggle against the Romans inMesopotamia . Trajan then marched southward to thePersian Gulf , defeated them, and declared Mesopotamia a province of theRoman Empire . After the Romans withdrew, Osroes drove out Parthamaspates and reclaimed the Parthian throne.Mithridates IV eventually succeeded Osroes about
129 and reigned to about140 , when he died in an attack on RomanCommagene . Sanatruces, whom he had appointed his successor, predeceased him, also falling in a battle with the Romans. Thus the pair's earlier "reign" during the abortive campaign of 116 proved Sanatruces' sole taste of kingship.His father's longtime rival Vologases III took over Mithridates' realm, but another son of Mithridates, Vologases IV, eventually came to the throne after the death of Vologases III in 147.
References
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Dio Cassius , lxviii, 17–33.
*John Malalas , "Chronographia".
*Aelius Spartianus , "Vita Hadrian", v, 13.
*Pausanias, v, 12.
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