Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator (in Greek Aριαραθης Eυσεβης Φιλoπατωρ; reigned 163–130 BC) was son of the preceding king Ariarathes IV. Previously called Mithridates, he reigned 33 years, 163–130 BC, as king of Cappadocia. He was distinguished by the excellence of his character and his cultivation of philosophy and the liberal arts. According to Livy¹, he was educated at Rome; but this account may perhaps refer to another Ariarathes, while Ariarathes Eusebes probably studied in his youth in Athens, where he seems to have became a friend of the future king Attalus II. In consequence of rejecting, at the wish of the Romans, a marriage with the sister of Demetrius I Soter, the latter made war upon him, and brought forward Orophernes, one of the supposititious sons of the late king, as a claimant of the throne. Ariarathes was deprived of his kingdom, and fled to Rome about 158 BC. He was restored by the Romans, who, however, allowed Orophernes to reign jointly with him, as is expressly stated by Appian², and implied by Polybius³. The joint government, however, did not last long; for we find Ariarathes shortly afterwards named as sole king. In 154 BC, Ariarathes assisted the king of Pergamum Attalus II in his war against Prusias II of Bithynia, and sent his son Demetrius in command of his forces. He fell in 130 BC, in the war of the Romans against Aristonicus of Pergamum. In return for the succours which he had brought the Romans on that occasion, Lycaonia and Cilicia were added to the dominions of his family. By his wife Nysa (possibly a daughter of king Pharnaces I of Pontus) he had six children; but they were all, with the exception of one, killed by their mother, that she might obtain the government of the kingdom. After she had been put to death by the people on account of her cruelty, her last surviving son succeeded to the crown as Ariarathes VI.⁴ Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC - 160s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC Years: 168 BC 167 BC 166 BC 165 BC 164 BC - 163 BC - 162 BC 161 BC 160... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC - 130 BC - 129 BC 128 BC... Ariarathes IV Eusebes (in Greek Aριαραθης Eυσεβης; reigned 220–163 BC), son of the king of Cappadocia Ariarathes III, was a child at his accession, and reigned 220—163 BC, about 57 years. ... Cappadocia in 188 BC In ancient geography, Cappadocia (Greek: Καππαδοκία) was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). ... Philosophy is a discipline or field of study involving the investigation, analysis, and development of ideas at a general, abstract, or fundamental level. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... Bust of Livy Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab urbe condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Attalus II Philadelphus (220 BCE - 138 BCE) was a king of Pergamum. ... 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Ariarathes was a strong philhellene; himself honoured with the Athenian citzenship, he refounded the two Cappadocian towns of Mazaca and Tyana with the Greek names of Eusebia. He was munificent in his donations to Athens and its institutions; an inscription remains by an association of professional actors which thanks him and his wife for his patronage. It is also known that he corresponded with rhe Greek philosopher Carneades, as Diogenes Laertius attests.⁵ Philhellenism (the love of Greek culture) was the intellectual fashion at the turn of the 19th century that led Europeans like Lord Byron to lend their support for the Greek movement towards independence from the Ottoman Empire. ... Caesarea Mazaca (modern Kayseri), is an ancient town of Anatolia which served as the residence of the kings of Cappadocia. ... Tyana was an ancient city of Anatolia, in modern south-eastern Turkey. ... Carneades (c. ... Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii. ...

Ariarathes IV Eusebes (in Greek Aριαραθης Eυσεβης; reigned 220–163 BC), son of the king of Cappadocia Ariarathes III, was a child at his accession, and reigned 220—163 BC, about 57 years. ...

References

• Appian, The foreign wars, Horace White (translator), New York, (1899)
• Hazel, John; Who's Who in the Greek World, "Ariarathes V", (1999)
• Head, Barclay; Historia Numorum, "Cappadocia", (1911)
• Justin; Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, John Selby Watson (translator); London, (1886)
• Livy; History of Rome, Canon Roberts (translator); New York, (1905)
• Polybius; Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator); London - New York, (1889)
• Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Ariarathes V", Boston, (1867)

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