Parthian in a sentence

In this school of thought, Conquest, the white horse's rider, is sometimes identified as a symbol of Parthian forces: Conquest carries a bow, and the Parthian Empire was at that time known for its mounted warriors and their skill with bow and arrow.

Charles the King and Wales, by Huw Thomas, will be published by Parthian Books on 1 May.

Marvin Salih, 31, of Kilton Court, Hull pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal damage in which he damaged guttering and outdoor furniture on Parthian Road and smashed a rear door window and damaged a plant pot on Seafield Avenue.

The exhibit features stories from ancient Palmyra – a caravan city located in a desert oasis at the crossroads between two powerful empires, Roman and Parthian, in the heart of today’s Syria.

Antony then spent the winter of 41 BC in Alexandria with Cleopatra, leaving only two legions to defend the Syrian border against Parthian incursions.

Artavasdes II offered Crassus the aid of nearly forty thousand troops to assist his Parthian expedition on the condition that Crassus invade through Armenia as the safer route.

As part of the compromise between Antony and the Republicans to restore order following Caesar's murder, Publius Cornelius Dolabella was assigning the governorship of Syria and command over Caesar's planned Parthian campaign.

At the end of the Kushan period, the Empire became much smaller and would have to defend itself from the powerful Sassanid Empire that replaced the Parthian Empire.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 127. and, to settle his unease over the course of the Parthian war, a long and considered letter, full of historical references.

Commander Corbulo responded and repelled most of the Parthian army that same year.

Crassus' actions proved disastrous as his army was defeated at the Battle of Carrhae by a numerically inferior Parthian force.

Crassus' legions were mainly infantry men and were not prepared for the type of swift, cavalry-and-arrow attack that the Parthian troops were particularly adept at.

For example, in the 9th century, a deeply venerated cypress tree in Khorasan (which Parthian-era legend supposed had been planted by Zoroaster himself) was felled for the construction of a palace in Baghdad, convert away.

Furthermore, the museum has a representative collection of Dilmun and Parthian material excavated from various burial mounds at the ancient sites of A'ali and Shakhura in Bahrain.

Hinard, 2000, pg 858 Antony, then in Egypt with Cleopatra, did not respond immediately to the Parthian invasion.

History Parthian period Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC.

In planning his invasion of the Parthian Empire, Caracalla decided to equip the men of his army of 16,000 men in the style of Macedonian phalanxes, despite the Roman army having made the Phalanx an obsolete tactical formation.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were of a thoroughly scientific character; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were thoroughly scientific; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.

Instead, Antony dispatched Publius Ventidius Bassus to check the Parthian advance.