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This article aims to survey the sources on the Frataraka to examine their historical role. Initially, we will provide a concise overview of the academic community's contributions and the status quaestionis, presenting the primary testimonies available ...
Raúl Navas-Moreno
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Legendary genealogies of Byzantine Emperors and their families [PDF]
Theoretically, the Byzantine Emperor was, just like in the times of the Roman Empire, chosen on the basis of his personal qualities and merits — by the grace of God, of course.
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Giulio Maresca. “Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-Western Iran during the Sasanian Period: some Archaeological Remarks” [PDF]
Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and their function in the facilitation of irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific Sasanian administrative centralisation.
Rossi, Domiziana, Domiziana Rossi
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Jason Schlude, Benjamin Rubin (eds.). Arsacids, Romans and Local Elites. Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire [PDF]
Since the accession of the Achaemenids, the vast territories of the ancient Near East experienced the government of complex systems of elites and bureaucracies over multi-cultural and multi-ethnic populations.
Messina, Vito
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THE ARSACIDS OF ROME: ROYAL HOSTAGES AND ROMAN-PARTHIAN RELATIONS IN THE FIRST CENTURY CE [PDF]
This is a study of Julio-Claudian Rome’s relations with Parthia, one of the great empires of ancient Iran and an imperial rival of the Principate. In contrast to previous scholarship that treats Rome and Parthia as monoliths clashing in war or coexisting
Nabel, Jacob Theodore
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Edward Dąbrowa. Greek: a Language of the Parthian Empire [PDF]
The special status enjoyed by Greek language in the Parthian empire was due to the role of the Greeks and the weight of the Seleucid heritage in the building by the Arsacids of an ideological community to support their new state.
Sinisi, Fabrizio, Fabrizio Sinisi
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Wilhelm Müseler. “The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited” [PDF]
The author takes into consideration the coinage of Persis, an autonomous region in southern Iran during the Seleucid rule, later a vassal kingdom under the Arsacids.
Gregoratti, Leonardo
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Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis.
Marek Olbrycht (6814832)
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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 ...
Nabel, Jake
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Edward Dąbrowa. Were the Arsacids Deities ‘Revealed’? [PDF]
The use of the appellative of Epiphanes was introduced in Arsacid coin titolature by Artabanus I (c. 126-122 BCE), son of Mithradates I, aiming at conveying the message that he belonged to a family with divine status.
Sinisi, Fabrizio, Fabrizio Sinisi
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