Tiridates, or
Teridates is a Persian name, given by
ArrianLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman period...
in his
Parthica to the brother of
Arsaces IArsaces I was the founder of the Arsacid dynasty, and after whom all 30+ monarchs of the Arsacid empire officially named themselves. A celebrated descent from antiquity begins with Arsaces.
[A 1st century AD tradition casts Arsaces as descending from the 5th century BC Achaemenid...]
, the founder of the
ParthiaParthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasts, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
n kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded in about 246 BC. But Arrian’s account seems to be quite unhistorical and modern historians believe that Arsaces continued to rule Parthia until 211 BC.
In Arrian's account, Tiridates maintained himself for a short time in Parthia, during the dissolution of the
Seleucid empireThe Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic empire, i.e. a successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. The Seleucid Empire was centered in the near East and at the height of its power included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts of Pakistan...
by the attacks of Ptolemy III in 246 BC and the following years.
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Tiridates, or
Teridates is a Persian name, given by
ArrianLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman period...
in his
Parthica to the brother of
Arsaces IArsaces I was the founder of the Arsacid dynasty, and after whom all 30+ monarchs of the Arsacid empire officially named themselves. A celebrated descent from antiquity begins with Arsaces.
[A 1st century AD tradition casts Arsaces as descending from the 5th century BC Achaemenid...]
, the founder of the
ParthiaParthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasts, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
n kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded in about 246 BC. But Arrian’s account seems to be quite unhistorical and modern historians believe that Arsaces continued to rule Parthia until 211 BC.
In Arrian's account, Tiridates maintained himself for a short time in Parthia, during the dissolution of the
Seleucid empireThe Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic empire, i.e. a successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. The Seleucid Empire was centered in the near East and at the height of its power included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts of Pakistan...
by the attacks of Ptolemy III in 246 BC and the following years. Tiridates was defeated and expelled by
Seleucus IISeleucus II Callinicus or Pogon , was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, who reigned from 246 to 225 BC...
in about 238 BC. But when Seleucus was forced, by the rebellion of his brother,
Antiochus HieraxAntiochus Hierax , so called from his grasping and ambitious character, was a separatist ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, the younger son of Antiochus II and Laodice I, Seleucid king of Syria...
, to return to the west, Tiridates came back and defeated the
MacedonMacedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paionia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south...
ians. Tiridates adopted the name of his brother Arsaces, and after him all the other Parthian kings.
See also
- Tiridates II of Parthia
Tiridates II of Parthia was set up by the Parthians against Phraates IV in about 32 BC, but expelled when Phraates returned with the help of the Scythians...
is called "Tiridates I" in accounts that miss out the earlier Tiridates.