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Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ἀρτεμιτηνός
Apollodorus of Artemita
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Apollodorus of Artemita was a Greek historian of the 1st century BCE from the city of Artemita within the Parthian Empire, in modern Iraq. A subject of the Arsacid kings, his work provides a valuable internal perspective from a Hellenized author during a period of significant interaction between the Hellenistic, Parthian, and Eastern worlds.

His only known work is the lost Parthica, a history of the Parthian Empire which survives in fragments, primarily through quotations by Strabo and Athenaeus. Spanning at least four books, it served as a major source on Parthian history, geography, and the lands of Bactria and India for later Greek and Roman writers.

Apollodorus is significant as one of the few known Greek historians writing from within the Parthian Empire. His Parthica was a crucial source for later geographers like Strabo, and its fragments remain essential for understanding the Greek perspective on the Arsacid dynasty and the eastern frontiers of the Hellenistic world.

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Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Παρθίας
Historical Fragments on Parthia
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