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Arsacid Dynastic Marriages [PDF]

open access: diamondElectrum, 2018
Dynastic marriages in the Hellenistic world were an important diplomatic tool that provided distinct political benefi ts to one or both of the parties involved. The Parthian rulers from the Arsacid dynasty also engaged in such unions with other ruling houses.
Edward Dąbrowa
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The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations [PDF]

open access: gold
At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family—the ruling dynasty of Parthia—who were sent to live at the Roman court.
Jake Nabel
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The Hypothesis of the Arsacids’ Descent from the Achaemenids: Myth or Reality? [PDF]

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the ...
Arthur Melikyan
exaly   +10 more sources

Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]

open access: yesEarly Mediev Eur, 2023
This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason
Rapp C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Parthian-Armenian Relations from the 2nd Century BCE to the Second Half of the 1st Century CE [PDF]

open access: yesElectrum, 2021
The aim of this paper is to present Parthian-Armenian relations from the end of the 2nd century BCE to the so-called Treaty of Rhandeia (63 CE). This covers the period from the first contact of both states to the final conclusion of long-drawn-out ...
Edward Dąbrowa
doaj   +3 more sources

THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE ARSACIDS’ DESCENT FROM THE ACHAEMENIDS: MYTH OR REALITY? [PDF]

open access: diamondBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2021
In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the ...
Arthur Melikyan
doaj   +2 more sources

The Internal Policy of the Early Arsacids

open access: diamondIzvestiya of Saratov University New Series Series History International Relations, 2015
Archil Savelich Balakhvantsev
exaly   +3 more sources

M. Rahim Shayegan. Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2016
Ce livre a été suivi l’année suivante par une autre publication – M. Rahim Shayegan, Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumâta to Wahnâm.
Rika Gyselen
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