TY - JOUR
TI - The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period
AU - Olbrycht, Marek Jan
TI - The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period
AB - 
	The Achaemenid Empire, established by Cyrus the Great, provided a model looked up to by subsequent empires on the territory of Iran and the Middle East, including the empires ruled by Alexander of Macedonia, the Seleukids, and the Arsakids. Achaemenid patterns were eagerly imitated by minor rulers of Western Asia, including Media Atropatene,  Armenia, Pontos, Kappadokia and Kommagene. The Arsakids harked back to Achaemenids, but their claims to the Achaemenid descendance were sporadic. Besides, there were no genealogical links between the Arsakids and Achaemenid satraps contrary to the dynastic patterns common in the Hellenistic Middle East.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 14, Special Issue
PY - 2019
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 175
EP - 186
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.19.032.10975
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/the-memory-of-the-past-the-achaemenid-legacy-in-the-arsakid-period
KW - Iran
KW - Cyrus the Great
KW - Achaemenids
KW - Arsakids
KW - Achaemenid legacy