TIRIDATES, King of Parthia

tĭrˌĭdāˈtēz, d. 211 b.c., king of Parthia (c.248–211 b.c.), 2d ruler of the Arsacid dynasty (see under Arsaces). He absorbed Hyrcania and, with the ruler of Bactria, successfully resisted the attacks of Seleucus II of Syria.

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The Story of Parthia
Book by George P. Rawlinson; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1893
Subjects: Parthia (Iran)--History
...troubles in Parthia, 238...Flight of Artabanus...Tiridates III. made king by the Romans...monarch. Tiridates, on ascending...the first Parthian king of whom we possess...figure of a Parthian god, but...former. Tiridates takes upon...title either of "King," or of...
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The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy: Or, the Geography, History, & Antiquities of Parthia
Book by George Rawlinson; Belford, Clarke, 1887
Subjects: Parthia (Iran)--History
...Alliance of the Median King with Antony. War between Parthia and Media...Phraates by Tiridates. Phraates...Invasion of Parthia Proper by...Second Attack of Volagases on Armenia. Tiridates estab lished as King. First Expedition...Bactrian king, 2 and...against Tiridates. Hereupon...deep sense of the impending...quitted Parthia, and proceeding...
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The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier
Book by Duane W. Roller; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Cleopatra--Queen, Consort Of Juba Ii, King Of Mauretania--B. 40 B.C, Juba--Ii--King Of Mauretania--Ca. 50 B.C.-Ca. 24 A.D, Juba--Ii--King Of Mauretania--Ca. 50 B.C.-Ca. 24 A.D--Knowledge And Learning, Mauretania (Kingdom)--Civilization, Mauretania (Kingdom)--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...II 1 was born about 48BC, the son of King Juba I of Numidia, the territory south...and that of Augustus to make him king of Mauretania. Jubas ancestors were...perhaps grandson - of Ailymas, king of Libya, an ally of Agathokles of...
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Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
Book by Susan P. Mattern; University of California Press, 1999
Subjects: Rome--Foreign Relations--30 B.C.-284 A.D, Rome--History, Military--30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D--Historiography, Rome--Military Policy
...deterred even the king of the Scythians...negotiations with the Parthians (Joseph. AJ...accusing the king of Commagene...conspiracy with the Parthians and asking...Roman arms and King Juba, and...that a part of one of these...form of the Parthian Stations...
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The Pre-Islamic Middle East
Book by Martin Sicker; Praeger Publishers, 2000
Subjects: Middle East--History--To 622
...persecution as a state policy under the Seleucid king Antiochus IV, precipitating the first war of national-religious liberation under the leadership...reliability. The histories of ancient Persia and Parthia are known to us almost entirely from Greek and...
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Artaxerxes, Ardasir, and Bahman
Journal article by Said Amir Arjomand; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Ardasir (Persian king)--Research, Artaxerxes II (Persian king)--Research, Bahman (Persian king)--Research, Iran--Religion, Zoroastrianism--Research
...had already been chosen by the Parthians as the Achaemenid ancestor of the Arsacids some two centuries...further back, making Arsak and Tiridates, the two brothers who founded...descendants of the Persian King Artaxerxes (see Wolski 1974...
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Nero Reconsidered
Journal article by Edward Champlin; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998
Subjects: Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68
...presenting himself as the Sun King: he became Sol or Helios, the god of the Sun, beautiful, all-seeing...which the emperor crowned Tiridates Ying of Armenia at fabulous...emperor had received the homage of King Tiridates in the Forum, and he crowned...


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Tiridates , King of Parthia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIRIDATES , king of Parthia tir ida tez, d. 211 b.c., king of Parthia (c.248 211 b.c.), 2d ruler of the Arsacid dynasty (see under...
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Tiridates , King of Armenia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIRIDATES , king of Armenia fl. c.a.d. 63...brother Vologeses I, king of Parthia, and he was driven from it...Corbulo won (a.d. 59) the Parthian campaign. Later he went to...Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dictated to Greece by the great king, Egypt, which had become independent...continued to revolt and the efforts of the armies of Artaxerxes II...Diadochi ). The Seleucids and the Parthian Empire After Alexander the...greatest of the Parthians ( Tiridates , Mithradates I, and Mithradates...


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