History of Iran
(part of Iranologie.com)
Part V: Arsacid Empire
Index and General Bibliography
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Successors of Alexander and the Selucid Empire
Chapter II. From Arsaces I to Mithradates II
Chapter III: The Parthian Dark Ages
Chapter IV: Orodes II to the Fall of the Arsacids
Chapter V: Economy, Society, and Culture of Arsacid Iran
Related Articles
Rezakhani, Khodadad. "Tirdad and Ardavan: A New Look at the Genealogy of Early Arsacids"
The History Page Iranologie Main Page
Assar, G.R.F. “Recent Studies in Parthian History II”, The Celator, Volume 15, No. 1, Jan 2001
Assar, G.R.F. "A Revised Parthian Chronology of the Period 91-55 BC" (2006). Parthica 8, 2006, 55-104.
Bivar, A.D.H. "The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids" in Ehsan Yarshater (ed.) Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. III, Part I. CUP, 1983
Bouché-Leclercq, A. Histoire des Séleucides, 2 vols. Paris: Culture et Civiliation, 1913-1914
Briant, P. "The Seleucid Kingdom, the Achaemenid Empire and the History of the Near East in the First Millennium BC," in P. Bilde, ed., Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1990
Cohen, G. M. The Seleucid Colonies (Historia Einzelschriften 30). Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1978
Diakonoff, I. M. & Livshits, V. A. Parthian Documents from Nisa, Moscow, 1976
Fischer, T., "Seleukiden," Chiron 15, 1985
Goralski, W. J. "Arrian's Events After Alexander: Summary of Photius and Selected Fragments," Ancient World 19, 1989
Grainger, J. D. Seleukos Nikator. London: Routledge, 1990
Le Rider, G. "Séleucos I entre Séleucie de Piérie et Antioche," Revue belge de Numismatique 145, 1999
Mehl, A. "Seleukos Nikator und sein Reich I. Teil: Seleukos' Leben und die Entwicklung sein Machtposition," Studia Hellenistica 28. Louvain, 1986
Mørkholm, Otto, "Greece to India," In: Carson, R. A. G., Berghaus, Peter & Lowick, Nicholas (eds.), A Survey of numismatic research : 1972-1977, Berne: International Numismatic Commission, 1979, p. 60-97.
Nikitin, Alexander B. "Datirovannye drakhmy Fraata III i khronologiëia Suzianskikh mednykh émissii" [The dated drachmas of Phraates III and the chronology of Susianian copper emissions]. Sovetskaia arkheologiia, 1984, no. 4, p. 249-252.
Schippmann, Klaus. Grundzüge der Partischen geschichte, Darmstadt, 1980.
Sellwood, David. An Introduction to Coinage of Parthia, London, 1980.
Sellwood, David. "Parthian Coins"", in E. Yarshater ed. Cambridge History of Iran, vol. III, part I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Sellwood, David. "Trade routes through Parthia" in: Jha, Amal Kumar (ed.), Coinage, trade and economy, Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies,1991, pp. 23-27.
Shahbazi, A.S. “Arsacids: Origins”, in E. Yarshater ed. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Costa Mesa, CA: Bibliotheca Persica, 1986 and www.iranica.com .van der Spek, R.J. "..en hun machthebbers worden weldoeners genoemd." Religieuze en economische politiek in het Seleucidische Rijk. Amsterdam: Boekhandel/Uitgeverij, 1994
Weiskopf, Michael."The Kuh Dasht Hoard and the Parthian 'Dark Age', " Museum Notes, 1981, vol. 26, p. 125-152.
Wolski, J. L’Empire des Arsacides, Peeters, Gent, 1993.
Wolski, J.“Arsace II et la genealogie des premiers Arsacides“, Historia XI, 1962 , 136-145.
Wolski, J. “The Decay of the Iranian Empire of the Seleucids and the Chronology of the Parthian Beginnings”, Berytus, 12, 1957.