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Augustan Poets on the Roman-Parthian Treaty of 20 BC

Classica Cracoviensia, 2017
Augustan Poets on the Roman-Parthian Treaty of 20 BC From the moment Rome established contacts with the Parthian empire in the 1st century BC, its relations with the eastern neighbour became one of the most important points of Roman foreign policy ...
Tomasz Babnis
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On the Issue of the Parthian Pahlavs' Socio-Political Nature

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The role of the high aristocracy, the so-called pahlavs, is undeniable in the history of the Parthian state. In the second half of III century BC the assistance of the pahlavs to the Arsacid dynasty considerably contributed to the establishment of the ...
Arthur Melikyan
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Baktrians as Self, Parthians as Other? The entanglements of North‑Eastern inbetweenness in the study of Hellenistic Central Asia [PDF]

Studia Hercynia
The study of Hellenistic Central Asia is, in many ways, an engagement with various kinds of inbetweenness: spatial, temporal, cultural, disciplinary, and historiographical. One of the most persistent keywords to characterize this macroregion is that of a
Milinda Hoo
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Antigonus Mattathias: Between Parthia, Rome, and Herod the Great

Electrum
The portrayal of Antigonus Mattathias’s reign, the last king of the Hasmonean dynasty (40–37 BCE) we owe exclusively to Josephus, who devoted him a considerable place in both of his works.
Edward Dąbrowa
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On the Discovery of Eastern Hellenistic Initiatory Altar of the 3rd – 1st Centuries BC Depicting the Plot of Bull Sacrifice in the City of Stavropol

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The article is devoted to the semantic and chronological analysis of the images on the plate of white tuff discovered in the city of Stavropol. The central part of the relief is occupied with the image of table – an altar with hoisted bull head (in the ...
Prokopenko Yuriy A.
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The Honouring of the Legio Chief Physician L. Hortensius Paulinus

Belleten, 2016
An inscription dated to the beginning of the 3rd century AD, and found within the city limits of Antiocheia in 2011, honors the legion Chief Physician L.
Abdurrahman Uzunaslan
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The Concept of Rebellion/Rebel in the Behistun Inscription: Formal Terminology and Phrases [PDF]

پژوهش های تاریخی
The main issue of the present research is the nature of the concept of rebellion (rebel) in the Behistun Inscription. To answer this question, the study utilizes a conceptual historical method based on analyzing the Old Persian text of the Behistun ...
Adel Allahyari, Assistant Professor Hossein Badamchi   +1 more
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ZELA, ACCLAMATIONS, CARACALLA – AND PARTHIA?

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2016
Abstract A coin which has lain unrecognized in the BM, which can be identified as an unpublished coin of Zela, proclaims that if ‘the emperors are victorious the world is happy’. The formula is analysed in the context of imperial acclamations and their language, which differs from that normally found on coinage.
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Parthia During the Time of Mithridates III (58/57-56 B.C.). An Attempt to Reconstruct Historical Events

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
In the huge number of scientific works on the history of Parthia, there are no special studies devoted to the activities of the Parthian king Mithridates III (Mithridates IV – according to Assar’s chronology [4:96-97])2 .
Ruslan Kobzar
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The Hypothesis of the Arsacids’ Descent from the Achaemenids: Myth or Reality?

Banber 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
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