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The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period

Publication date: 22.10.2019

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, Volume 14, Special Issue, pp. 175 - 186

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.19.032.10975

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Marek Jan Olbrycht
University of Rzeszów, Poland
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The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period

Abstract

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.

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The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period

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The Memory of the Past: the Achaemenid Legacy in the Arsakid Period

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-752X

Marek Jan Olbrycht
University of Rzeszów, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-752X Orcid
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University of Rzeszów, Poland

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