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Arsaces I (; (ペルシア語:ارشک) ''Arshak'', ,) was the founder of the Arsacid dynasty, and after whom all 30+ monarchs of the Arsacid empire officially named themselves. A celebrated descent from antiquity (the Bagratid "line") begins with Arsaces.〔A 1st century AD tradition (preserved by Arrian) casts Arsaces as descending from the 5th-century BC Achaemenid monarch Artaxerxes II. The Seleucids (and virtually everyone else after them) propagated the same myth, and such contrived genealogies were used as a justification of the right to rule.〕 Arsaces or Ashk has also given name to the city of Ashkabad. ==Origin== The dates of Arsaces' birth and death are unknown, as is his real name. Most scholars now believe that Arsaces was a chief of the Parni, a Dahae tribe who conquered Parthia shortly before Diodotus’ revolt.〔http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arsacids-index〕 〔Strabo, 11.9.2〕 〔The History Of Ancient Iran Richard N. Frye, pp. 205-208〕 It should be noted, however, that there is no agreement among classical sources regarding his origins, and doubt about the accuracy of classical and traditional sources on the matter.〔''History of Ancient Iran'', Hassan Pirnia pp. 2197–2203.〕 Moreover, even the most respected and/or frequently cited sources regarding Arsaces are later reiterations of classical sources, such as Arrian (i., preserved in Photius and Syncellus) and Strabo (xi.) Rival theories about the origions of Arsaces and/or the Parni Dahae include: * several cited by Strabo, including * * a suggestion, which Strabo doubts, that the Dahae (including the Parni) were "Scythians", who had earlier migrated from "above the Maeotis" (Azov Sea), * * evidence that Arsaces may have originated in Bactria,〔Strabo 11.9.3〕 and * * a claim that Arsaces, rejecting the increasing power of Diodotus, himself led the revolt of Parthia;〔Strabo 11.9.3〕 * classical accounts claiming that the "Persian" Andragoras, whom Alexander left as satrap of Parthia, was the ancestor of the subsequent kings of Parthia, such as Arsaces.〔Justin 12.4.12〕 * Arrian, in ''Parthica'' – a now-lost work, epitomized by Photius's ''Bibliotheca'' (58) and the 12th century Syncellus 〔''Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae'' XIII, ed. W. Dindorf, Bonn, 1829, p. 539.〕 – suggests that Arsaces and Tiridates were brothers, and descendants of Phriapites; * conversely, according to Syncellus, the brothers Arsaces and Tiridates may have been descendants of the Persian Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II,〔Justin 12.4.12〕 and; * attempts to link Arsaces to Kai Kobad (Kay Qobád), a mythological king of the Kayanian dynasty.〔Ferdowsī. Šāh-nāma VII. p. 116〕〔Ṭabarī, I, p. 710〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arsaces I of Parthia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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