Episode 9.3 - Mithridates I of Parthia

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Mithridates took charge of a relatively small kingdom that nominally held lands south and east of the Caspian sea. By the end of his reign, he had turned it into a powerful empire that ruled from Syria to India, and had grown to be the major rival to the power to their west, the Roman Empire.

Sources

  • Craig Benjamin, Empires of Ancient Eurasia, The First Silk Roads Era 100 B.C. - 250 A.D.

  • Edward Dabrowa, The Arsacids and Their State

  • Edward Dabrowa, Mithridates I and the Beginning of the Ruler-Cult in Parthia

  • Cambridge History of Iran, The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids

  • Richard Nelson Frye, The Ancient History of Iran

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