Политическая история ранней Парфии

Balakhvantsev Archil

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF EARLY PARTHIA

Еditor: Pogrebova M.

Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Москва, 2017, 192 p.

PREFACE...5
INTRODUCTION... 7
C h apter 1. Parthia: Land and Climate... 17
§ 1. Historical Geography of Early Parthia...17
§ 2. Natural and Geographical Conditions of Southwest Turkmenia and Northeast Iran....24
C h apter 2. The Middle Asian Daha in V-III В. C....28
C h apter 3. Graeco-Macedonians and Oriental Peoples in the Seleucids realm...42
C h apter 4. The Emergence of Parthia... 55
§ 1. Two Antique Traditions of Parthia Origin....55
§ 2. Enigma of Andragoras... 61
§ 3. Arsaces I and First Conquest of Parthyene65
C h apter 5. Seleucus II Callinicus and Parthia...71
C h apter 6. Between Raphia and M agnesia81
§ 1. The Foundation of Parthian State..... 81
§ 2. The Anabasis of Antiochus III...86
C h apter 7. Dark Twenty Five Years... 99
CONCLUSION....107
APPENDIXES:
A p p e n d ix I. Origins of P a rd a v a - Toponym.....115
A p p e n d ix II. The Daha of Southern Ural and Artaxerxes 1 ...118
A p p en d ix III. The Separation of Chorasmia from the Achaemenid realm ....125
A p p e n d ix IV. Coins of Andragoras: Who, Where, When?.....131
A p p en d ix V. The Foundation of Graeco-Bactria... 136
List of bibliographical abbreviations.... 139
References and bibliography.... 142
Index of sources... 172
SUMMARY... 182