Yeah, a lot of the non Greek and Roman factions are a bit confusing, especially the nomadic ones whose records (if any) are unavailable.
Re: The Parthian Empire
Yeah, a lot of the non Greek and Roman factions are a bit confusing, especially the nomadic ones whose records (if any) are unavailable.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
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Re: The Parthian Empire
A little research ...
The origins of the Parthian people are clouded. Strabo (xi, 515) says the first Arsaces was a Scythian man with the semi-nomadic Parni tribe, a part of the Dahi, nomads who lived along the Ochus (Tejend or lower Oxus) River, who invaded and conquered Parthia. Strabo also mentions those who claim Arsaces was a Bactrian who escaped from Diodotus after a failed revolt. Justin (xli, 1) agrees Arsaces was a Scythian. Frye's analysis is that we can believe the Parni origins, but it was more likely a migration than an invasion that brought them, and Arsaces, to Parthia. (History, p. 207) These people would not be known as Parthians until they moved southward into the Persian province of Parthava sometime before 250 B.C. Achaemenian and early Greek references to "Parthians" refer to earlier inhabitants of Parthava, not the Arsacid Parthians. (Debevoise, Political History, 2; W. M. Montgomery, Early Empires).
hhhmmm
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Re: The Parthian Empire
I know that they fought with the Achaemid Persians. Herodotus lists them in the Imperial force of Xerxes, under the Satrap Artabazus. However, I'm unsure if they were Parni or were from the Parthian province...
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
Re: The Parthian Empire
As I said , complicated , but maybe this is going to help - a map of Parthia in its beginning
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collec...es/pamabeg.htm
"The essence of philosophy is to ask the eternal question that has no answer" (Aristotel) . "Yes !!!" (me) .
"Its time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds." (Tupac Amaru Shakur)
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