Yervand Margaryan

Between Gods and Empires: Commagene, Parthia, and the Personal Cosmology of the Orontid Dynasty

The hierothesion of Antiochus I on Mount Nemrud is conventionally interpreted through the lens of political theology – as a frontier ruler's calculated synthesis of Greek and Iranian religious traditions designed to legitimise dynastic power between Rome and Parthia. The dominant scholarly tradition, spanning from Ther...