Arsaces (är'səsēz), fl. 250 B.C., founder of the Parthian dynasty of the Arsacids, which ruled Persia from c.250 B.C. to A.D. 226. Arsaces led a successful revolt against Antiochus II of Syria, when Antiochus was engaged in war with Egypt and trying to put down a revolt in Bactria. Among the other Parthian kings were Tiridates, Mithradates I, Mithradates II, and Phraates IV. Their empire became a formidable rival of the Roman power, but began to decay in the 2d cent. A.D. after Emperor Alexander Severus had invaded the country. The Arsacids were overthrown by a revolt of the Persians under Ardashir I, who in A.D. 226 slew Artabanus IV (Ardawan IV), the last of the Arsacids.
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Arsaces is the eponymous Greek form of the dynastic name (rather than the personal names of the kings) adopted by all epigraphically attested rulers of the 'phil-hellenenic' Arsacid dynasties. 'Arsaces'—Aρσακης on their coinage—is a variant form of (likewise hellenized) 'Artaxias' or 'Artaxerxes', in the latter case specifically Artaxerxes II, from whom the Arsacids claimed to descend. The indigenous Parthian and Armenian form was 'Arshak'.
- Arsaces I of Parthia, c. 247–211 BC
- Arsaces II of Parthia, c. 211–191 BC, in older sequences known as 'Artabanus I'.
- Arsaces I, II, and III of Armenia
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