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MITHRADATES I

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MITHRADATES I . (See also:Arsaces VI.), successor of his See also:brother, Phraates I., came to the See also:Parthian See also:throne about 175 B.C. The first event of his reign was a See also:war with See also:Eucratides of See also:Bactria, who tried to create a See also:great See also:Greek See also:empire n8nni Kt°;saof . in the See also:East. At last, when Eucratides had been murdered by his son about 15o, Mithradates was able to occupy some districts on the border of Bactria and to conquer Arachosia (See also:Kandahar); he is even said to have crossed the See also:Indus (See also:Justin 41, 6; See also:Strabo xi. 515, 517; cf. See also:Orosius v. 4, 16; Diod. 33, 18). Meanwhile the Seleucid See also:kingdom was torn by See also:internal dissensions, fostered by See also:Roman intrigues. Phraates I. had already conquered eastern See also:Media, about Rhagae (Rai), and subjected the Mardi on the border of the See also:Caspian (Justin 41, 5; Isidor. Charac.

7). Mithradates I. conquered the See also:

rest of Media and advanced towards the Zagros chains and the Babylonian See also:plain. In a war against the Elymaeans (in Susiana) he took the Greek See also:town See also:Seleucia on the Hedyphon, and forced their See also:king to become a See also:vassal of the Parthians (Justin 41, 6; Strabo xv. 744). About 141 he must have become See also:master of Babylonia. By Diodorus 33, 18 he is praised as a mild ruler; and the fact that from 140 he takes on his coins the epithet Philhellen (W. Wroth, See also:Catalogue of the Coins of See also:Parthia, p. 14 seq.; till then he only calls himself " the great king Arsakes ") shows that he tried to conciliate his Greek subjects. The Greeks, however, induced See also:Demetrius II. Nicator to come to their deliverance, although he was much pressed in See also:Syria by the pretender See also:Diodotus Tryphon. At first he was victorious, but in 138 he was defeated. Mithradates settled him with a royal See also:household in See also:Hyrcania and gave him his daughter Rhodogune in See also:marriage (Justin 36, 1, 38, 9; Jos.

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Ant. 13, 5, 11; Euseb. Chron. I. 257; See also:Appian Syr. 67). Shortly afterwards Mithradates I. died, and was succeeded by his son Phraates II. He was the real founder of the Arsacid Empire.

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