1976/01/01 by David Sellwood · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Byzantine Studies and History #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Scholarship #Accession #Ancient history #History #Classics #Political science #Law
paper · doi:10.1017/s0035869x00132988
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When set against our knowledge of contemporary Greece and Rome, the whole of Parthian history may be termed a “Dark Age”. Even so, within the four centuries of Arsacid domination, the accidents of discovery and the efforts of scholarship have illuminated some periods more than others. Of the latter, one, running between the death of Mithradates II in about 88 B.C. and the accession of Orodes II some thirty years later, has proved peculiarly impenetrable.