Talk:Orontes I

Orontes I = Yervant I
it is one and the same person - ΜΣΧ 16:26, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Tigranes is not Tigran
Orontes I / Yervand I reigned during the period between 401 BC – 344 BC. .....Xenophon mentioned that he had a son called Tigranes. This is ok.

The link goes to Tigran I (Yervanduni) Armenian King of Orontid dynasty reigning in the period between 560 BC – 535 BC.

But this is obviously is a different Tigranes. Maybe the right Tigranes can be identified. --W.ehrlich (talk) 10:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * If you want to understand what the problem really is with the chronologies, check Moses of Chorene article, and the difference between (for example) the King Vahagn article and the Armenian wikipedia version of the same article - hy:%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%B6 - the dates are completely off (first is 6th BC, second is during the Artaxiad dynasty of the 4th BC - this is due to Moses Chorenis History book, which is now deemed unreliable). Probably the Tigranes is the same, as someone wrote the article referring erroneously to Tigranes I. --92slim (talk) 01:53, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Orontes/Yervand in lead
I'm responding mainly to 's good faith edit here. I added the Armenian name of Orontes (Armenian: Yervand) because he played a crucial role in the history of the Armenian people, to the point in which many historians claim that Armenia's capital city, Yerevan, may be named after him. It has since become a very popular name in Armenian and many streets and villages have been named after him. So per WP:OTHERNAMES, his significance remains a key factor in keeping his Armenian name there. Étienne Dolet (talk) 03:39, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Bactrian? Armenian?
Per, Encyclopaedia Iranica, "Orontes, a Bactrian, son of Artasouras/Artasyras (OGI no. 264. 4f.), satrap of Armenia under Artaxerxes II Mnemon (Xenophon, Anabasis 3.5.17; Pompeius Trogus, prolog. 10), who in 401 B.C.E. had given him his daughter Rhodogoune in marriage (Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.8; 3.4.13; Plutarch, Artox. 27.7; OGI no. 391–2) and so obliged him to the royal house. In two inscriptions of king Antiochus I of Commagene (ca. 69–34 B.C.E.), to be found on his monument at Nemrut dağı (OGI no. 391–2), Orontes, called Aroandes (son of Artasouras and husband of Artaxerxes’s daughter Rhodogoune), is reckoned, among others, as an ancestor of the “Orontids” ruling over Commagene, who traced back their family to the great Achaemenid kings. According to Plutarch (Arat. 3.5) he resembled Alcmaeon, the son of Amphiaraus, in appearance." --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)