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The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography 207 Azat Bozoyan The Depiction of the ArsacidDynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography Introduction The Arsacid, or Parthian, dynasty was foundedinthe 250s bce,detaching large ter- ritories from the Seleucid Kingdom which had been formed after the conquests of Alexander the Great.This dynasty ruled Persia for about half amillennium, until 226 ce,when Ardashir the Sasanian removed them from power.Under the Arsacid dynasty,Persia became Rome’smain rival in the East.Arsacid kingsset up theirrel- ativesinpositions of power in neighbouringstates, thus making them allies. After the fall of the Artaxiad dynasty in Armenia in 66 ce,Vologases IofParthia, in agree- ment with the RomanEmpire and the Armenian royal court,proclaimed his brother Tiridates king of Armenia. His dynasty ruled Armenia until 428 ce.Armenian histor- iographical sources, beginning in the fifth century,always reserved aspecial place for that dynasty. MovsēsXorenacʽi(Moses of Xoren), the ‘Father of Armenian historiography,’ at- tributed the origin of the Arsacids to the Artaxiad kingswho had ruled Armenia be- forehand. EarlyArmenian historiographic sources provide us with anumber of tes- timoniesregarding various representativesofthe Arsacid dynasty and their role in the spread of Christianity in Armenia. In Armenian, as well as in some Syriac histor- ical works,the origin of the Arsacids is related to King AbgarVof Edessa, known as the first king to officiallyadopt Christianity.Armenian and Byzantine historiograph- ical sources associate the adoption of Christianity as the state religion in Armenia with the Arsacid King Tiridates III. Gregory the Illuminator,who playedamajor role in the adoption of Christianity as Armenia’sstate religion and who even became widelyknown as the founder of the Armenian Church, belongstoanother branch of the samefamily. Medieval Armenian sources call that branch of the Arsacids, which playedasignificant role in the middle of the fifth century,the Pahlavunibranch. It producedaseries of catholicoi who pre- sided over the Armenian Church until the line was broken by Sahak I ‘The Parthian’ (386–428?). Anumber of medieval catholicoi, particularlyfrom Gregory II Vkayaser to Gregory VI Apirat (eleventh–twelfth centuries), also descended from the Pahlavuni family. Atheoretical justification of this inheritance was elaboratedinthe eleventh century and,especially, in the Vipasanutʽiwn (Narratio)ofCatholicos NersesIVthe Gracious (twelfth century). From an earlyperiod, Roman and Byzantine authorsspeak of the ParthianArsa- cids as the ruling dynasties both in Persia and Armenia. Some scions of the Arsacid dynasty,who weremostly associated with the Byzantine Empire, are mentioned in OpenAccess. ©2021Azat Bozoyan, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725612-010 206 AzatBozoyan Procopius of Caesarea’s History. Apocalyptic works preserved in Greek and attributed to the Catholicos Sahak Iattach great importance to the Arsacid dynasty in the future restoration of Armenian kingship. Anumber of apocalyptic works preserved in Arme- nian are alsoassociated with this family.The earliest sourceattributed to Catholicos Sahak is incorporatedinto the historical work of Łazar Pʽarpecʽi(fifth century).¹ In the ninth and tenth centuries, Emperor Basil Ithe Macedonian was said to have Ar- sacid origin by Patriarch of Constantinople Photios and by Basil’sgrandson Constan- tine VII Porphyrogennetos. These and other sources allow us to seek common roots of the Armenian and By- zantine claims regarding the Arsacids. They found fertile ground both in Armenian and Byzantine historiographicaltraditions, shapingthe imageofthe Arsacids as good Christian rulers. On the Subject of the Arsacids The royal house of the ArsacidsorParthians first appeared in history around 250 bce when it seceded from the Seleucid Hellenistic state formedinthe aftermath of Alexander the Great’scampaigns.The Parthian-Arsacid dynasty ruled over Iran for about 500 years until 226 ce when Ardashir the Sasanian, founderofanew dynasty, deprivedthem of theirpower.² However,little is known about the rule of members of the Parthian-Arsacid royal familyortheir attitude towards their kingdom. We know thatthe Arsacids considered their power as divine gift; they founded anew temple in Iran on the occasion of the coronation of each of their new rulers and therebysanctified each monarch’srule.³ Moreover,inconformity with ancient conventions, they traced theirdynasty back to the Achaemenids, constructingtheirdirect descent from Artaxerxes II.⁴ Thus, follow- See G. Muradyan, The Vision of St.Sahak in the History of Łazar Pʽarpecʽi. The Armenian Apoca- lyptic Tradition. AComparative Perspective.In: Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta (eds.), Es- says Presented in Honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Leiden, Boston, 2014,313–325. V. G. Lukonin, Iran in Ancient Times and the EarlyMiddle Ages [Essayonthe History of Culture], Moscow,1987(in Russian: В.Г. Луконин, Древнийи ранне-средневековый Иран (Очерки исто- рии культуры), Москва,1987), 87– 88. Lukonin (cf. fn. 2) 109,115;M.R.Shayegan, Arsacids and Sasanians.Political Ideology in Post-Hel- lenistic and Late Antique Persia, Cambridge,New York, 2011,137–150,226–228. Arrianus,Flavii Arriani quae extant omnia, ed. by A.G. Roos,vol. II: Scripta minora et fragmenta / Editio stereotypa correctior addenda et corrigenda adecit G. Wirth, Leipzig,1968 [Bibliotheca scripto- rum graecorum et romanoeum Teubneriana], 225; Lukonin (cf. fn. 2) 109,116;Cf. also A. Pétrovitch, Arsacid Coins,Part I: Collectionsofthe Knight Alexander Pétrovitch. ABrief History of the Partho- Armenians by Jacobos,archbishop of Tashean, Vienna, 1917[Bibliothèque Nationale, LXXX.] (in Ar- menian: Արշակունի դրամներ, մասն առաջին։Ժողովածոյք ասպետին Աղեքսանդր Պետրովիչ, Համառոտ Պարթևահայ պատմութեամբ, գրեց հ․ Յակոբոս վ․ Տաշեան, Վիեննա 1919 [ԱզգայինՄատենադարան, Ձ]), 19. The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography 207 ing ancient historiography, King Sohemos who seized power twice in Armenia in the second century ce,was amemberofboth the Achaemenid and Arsacid royal houses (his origins are cited below).⁵ The aforementioned conception of royal power was adopted by the succeeding Sasanian dynasty,⁶ which attempted to create the illusion of acontinuity of their power in Iran, starting with the time of Cyrus the Great (about 600 –530 bce)and persisting until the end of the seventh century ce when the Arabsdeposed the last Sasanian Kings. Accordingtothe seventh-century Byzantine historian Theophylact Simocatta, the Arsacids occupied one of the most important courtlypositions during this critical time for the Iranian state.AccordingtoSimocatta, it was the Arsacids alone who had the right of royal power in Iran and therefore could crownthe Sasa- nians.⁷ Simocatta also said thatBahram Chobin,⁸ commandant of the Sasanian court and usurper,was amember of this dynasty.⁹ The Arsacid kingsoften placed theirpa- rents (representativesoftheir dynasty) on the thrones of neighbouring vassal or con- federate countries (e.g.,Armenia, Georgia, Atropatene, Media, Adiabene, Edessa etc.).¹⁰ The Arsacids in the Caucasian Historiographical Tradition The Arsacid dynasty was foundedafter the downfall of the Artaxiad dynasty (accord- ing to modern historiography) in Armenia duringthe second half of the first century ce by the Parthian(Arsacid) Vologases I(r. 51– 78)with the consent of the Roman Empire and the Armenian court.Vologases proclaimed his brother Tiridates king and the dynasty founded by the latter reigned over Armenia until 428. Medieval Ar- menianhistoriographyand MovsēsXorenacʽipoint towards another view on the es- J. Marquart,Untersuchungenzur Geschichtevon Eran, in: Philologus.Zeitschrift für das Classische Altertum, Supplementband X, 1, Leipzig,1905,222–223; Cf. N. Adontz, Works in Five Volumes,I–V, Yerevan,2006–2012 (in Armenian: Ն․ ԱդոնցԵրկեր հինգ հատորով, Ա–Ե, Երևան 2006–2012), 63. Lukonin (cf. fn. 2) 109,116;Shayegan(cf. fn. 3) 340 –368. Thphyl., 3.18.8; 10 (Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, ed. by C. de Boor,Lipsiae, 1968, 148); Cf. Theophylactus Simocatta History /Russian translation by S.P.Kondratev, Мoscou,1957 (in Russian: Феофилакт Симокатта, История / Пер. С.П. Кондратева, Москва), 94;Cf. E. Sh. Khurshudian, StateInstitutions of Parthian and Sassanian Iran, III bce– VII ce,Almaty,2015 (in Russian: Э.Ш. Хур- шудян, Государственные Институты парфянскогоисасанидского Ирана.III в. до н.э. – VII в. н.э., Алматы 2015), 161, 200–201. Cf. A. Sh. Shahbazi, Bahram VI Čōbīn, in: Encyclopaedia Iranica, III/5, 1988, 514–522. Ibid. Lukonin (cf. fn. 2) 118, 120, 135–137. 208 AzatBozoyan tablishment of the Arsacid dynasty in Armenia.¹¹ In Xorenacʽi’s HistoryofArmenia, the Arsacid dynasty begins around the middle of the second century bce (nearly two hundred years before the date acknowledgedinmodern historiography)when Arsaces II, the Arsacid king of Iran, established his brother Vologases on the throne (around 150 –140 bce). SimilartoMovsēsXorenacʽi, Sebeos (seventh century) attests to the fact that the kingsthat held power in Armenia from the beginning of the sec- ond century bce are considered as the representative of the Arsacid dynasty.¹² Like- wise, as in MovsēsXorenacʽi, Tigranesthe Great is referred to as an Arsacid king in the works of Faustus of Byzantium and Pseudo-Epiphanius of Cyprus (surviving in
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