A Political History of Parthia/Lists of Rulers

by Neilson Carel Debevoise

 

LISTS OF RULERS

PARTHIAN KINGS

	B.C.		A.D.
Arsaces	ca. 250–248	Orodes III	4–ca. 6/7
Tiridates I	ca. 248–211	Vonones I	7/8–12
Artabanus I	ca. 211–191	Artabanus III	12–ca. 38
Priapatius	ca. 191–176	Tiridates III	ca. 36
Phraates I	ca. 176–171	Cinnamus	ca. 37
Mithradates I	ca. 171–138/37	Gotarzes II	ca. 38–51
Phraates II	138/37–ca. 128	Vardanes	ca. 39–47/48
Artabanus II	ca. 128–124/23	Vonones II	ca. 51
Mithradates II	ca. 123–88/87	Vologases I	51/52–79/80
Gotarzes I	91–81/80	Pacorus II	78–115/16?
Orodes I	80–76/75	Artabanus IV	80–81
Sinatruces	76/75–70 or 69	Osroes	ca. 109/10–128/29
Phraates III	70 or 69–58/57	Parthamaspates	ca. 117
Mithradates III	58/57–55	Vologases II	105/6?–147
Orodes II	ca. 57–37/36	Mithradates IV	128/29?–147?
Pacorus I	died in 38	Vologases III	148–192
Phraates IV	ca. 38–2	Vologases IV	191–207/8
Tiridates II	ca. 30–25	Vologases V	207/8–222/23
Phraataces (Phraates V)	2 b.c.–a.d. 4	Artabanus V	ca. 213–227
		Artavasdes	ca. 227–228/29?

 

SELEUCID KINGS^[1]

	B.C.		B.C.
Seleucus I Nicator	311–280	Antiochus III (the Great)	223–187
Antiochus I Soter	280–262/61
Antiochus II Theos	261–247	Seleucus IV Philopator	187–175
Seleucus II Callinicus	247–226	Antiochus IV Epiphanes	175–163
Seleucus III Soter	226–223

	B.C.		B.C.
Antiochus V Eupator	163–162	Antiochus IX Cyzicenus	115–95
Demetrius I Soter	162–150
Alexander I Balas	150–145	Seleucus VI Epiphanes Nicator
Demetrius II Nicator			96–95
$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	145–139/38	Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator	95–93
	129–125
Antiochus VI Epiphanes	145–142/41	Demetrius III Eucaerus Philopator Soter	95–88
Antiochus VII Sidetes	139/38–129	Antiochus XI Philadelphus	92
		Philippus I Philadelphus	92–83
[Alexander II Zabinas	128–123]	Antiochus XII Dionysus	87–84
Antiochus VIII Grypus and Cleopatra Thea	125–121	[Tigranes of Armenia	83–69]
		Antiochus XIII Asiaticus	69–64
Seleucus V	125
Antiochus VIII Grypus	121–96	Philippus II	65–64

 

ROMAN EMPERORS

			A.D.
Augustus	27 b.c.–a.d. 14	Hadrian	117–138
	A.D.	Antoninus Pius	138–161
Tiberius	14–37	Marcus Aurelius	161–180
Caligula	37–41	Lucius Verus	161–169
Claudius	41–54	Commodus	180–192
Nero	54–68	Julianus and Pertinax	193
Galba, Otho, Vitellius	68–69	Septimius Severus	193–211
Vespasian	69–79	Caracalla	211–217
Titus	79–81	Geta	211–212
Domitian	81–96	Macrinus	217–218
Nerva	96–98	Heliogabalus	218–222
Trajan	98–117	Severus Alexander	222–235

 

1. Adapted from CAH, IX, 1023.