Parthians

Examples of Parthians in the following topics:

• Break from the Seleucid Empire and Rise of the Parthian Empire

  • The Parthian Empire began as a minor revolt against the Seleucid Empire, but became powerful and wealthy because they controlled major trade routes.
  • He founded the Parthian Empire in 247 BCE when he conquered the region of Parthia, then a satrapy (province) in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire.
  • The Parthian Empire was also called the Arsacid Empire, after the Arscaid dynasty.
  • At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran.
  • Shortly after its independence, Parthia was conquered by the Parni tribesman Arsaces, who founded the Parthian Empire.

• Dura-Europos

  • Dura-Europos was an ancient city where Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman cultures thrived in what is Syria today.
  • Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman border city built on an escarpment above the right bank of the Euphrates river.
  • During the late second century BC it came under Parthian control and in the first century BC, it served as a frontier fortress of the Arsacid Parthian Empire.

• Architecture during the Severan Dynasty

  • Both were erected in 203 CE and commemorate the emperor's victory over the Parthians.
  • The Roman Arch of Septimius Severus recalls the triumphal arch of Augustus, also erected to honor his own victory over the Parthians.
  • On the pedestal of each are reliefs of Romans leading captive Parthians away.

• Babylon

  • By 141 BCE, when the Parthian Empire took over the region again, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity.
  • Under the Parthian, and later, Sassanid Persians, Babylon remained a province of the Persian Empire for nine centuries.

• Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

  • In addition to his adopting the body language and attire of a general, the relief on the cuirass shows one of Augustus's greatest victories—the return of the Parthian standards.
  • During the civil wars, a legion's standards were lost when the legion was defeated by the Parthians.

• The Julio-Claudians

  • Augustus notably negotiated peace with the Parthians and enacted civic and moral legislation to promote a return to Republican morals and ideals of Roman virtue.

• Expansion and Decline of the Kushan Empire

  • These conquests included parts of the northern central Iranian Plateau once ruled by the Parthian Empire, a major political and cultural power in ancient Iran and Iraq.

• Founding of the Roman Empire

  • Augustus dramatically enlarged the Empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia, expanded possessions in Africa, expanded into Germania, and completed the conquest of Hispania.Beyond the frontiers, he secured the Empire with a buffer region of client states, and made peace with the troublesome Parthian Empire through diplomacy.

• Decline of the Maurya Empire

  • Throughout the 1st century BCE, the Indo-Greeks progressively lost ground to the Indians in the East, and the Scythians, the Yuezhi, and the Parthians in the West.

• Greco-Buddhist Art

  • This development began during the Parthian Period (50 BCE–CE 75).