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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 4810917, member: 81887&quot;]No worries.&nbsp; Anyway, Parthian and Armenian affairs were pretty tightly linked, so it&#039;s relevant.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Dr. Gholam Reza Farhad (G.R.F.) Assar has published a major series of articles which argue for significant revisions in the king list and chronology.&nbsp; The articles are collected here:</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php" rel="nofollow">http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php</a></font></p><p><font size="4">and you can find the whole thing explained in Dr. Assar&#039;s essay (about 60 pages of small type) in the Sunrise Collection book.&nbsp; (Numismatic Art of Persia: The Sunrise Collection, Part I: Ancient- 650 BC to AD 650, edited by Bradley R. Nelson, ISBN 978-0-9837652-8-8.)&nbsp; Briefly, there&#039;s a previously unrecognized king Mithradates, probably a son of Mithradates II, who reigned </font><font size="4">87-80 BC (which is a good chunk of what was previously thought to be Orodes I&#039;s reign).&nbsp; This new Mithradates thus gets named &quot;Mithradates III&quot;, while the brother of Orodes II, who was previously called Mithradates III, gets promoted (or is it demoted?) to &quot;Mithradates IV&quot;, and the mysterious guy at c.140 AD is &quot;Mithradates V&quot;.&nbsp; If you want to know more, I&#039;d recommend reading the essay in the Sunrise Collection book (which is pretty easy to find) and then check out the articles for more explanations on how he reached particular conclusions.</font> [/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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