Capítulo de Libro
The return of the king: Pharnakes II and the Persian Heritage
Autor/es | Ballesteros Pastor, Luis |
Coordinador/Director | Coşkun, Altay |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Historia Antigua |
Fecha de publicación | 2021 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-07-20 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-3-515-12941-1 978-3-515-12944-2 |
Resumen | Pharnakes II is mainly known for his war against Julius Caesar, but also for having
been the instigator of the uprising which led his father Mithradates VI Eupator to suicide.
Some sources even directly attribute the ... Pharnakes II is mainly known for his war against Julius Caesar, but also for having been the instigator of the uprising which led his father Mithradates VI Eupator to suicide. Some sources even directly attribute the death of the great Pontic king to his son. As is well known, Pompey acknowledged Pharnakes as ruler of the Bosporus after the Mithradatic Wars in 63 BC, and he would reign over Kolchis as well at some point. In 48 BC, he went back to Anatolia and seized the old domains of his father. This chapter analyses how Pharnakes tried to be seen as a great Achaimenid ruler, following the official genealogy established in the court of Pontos which traced back the lineage of the Mithradatids to Cyrus and Darius the Great. Pharnakes’ return to the realm of his ancestors represented an exaltation of the Iranian roots of this king. One may gain the impression that this particular emphasis on his genealogical and ideological connections with the ancient Persian kings was also intended to set him apart from his (uneasy) father. |
Cita | Ballesteros Pastor, L. (2021). The return of the king: Pharnakes II and the Persian Heritage. En A. Coşkun (Ed.), Ethnic Constructs, Royal Dynasties and Historical Geography around the Black Sea Littoral (pp. 183-198). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. |
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