Sanatruces of Parthia

King Sanatruces of Parthia (also Sinatruces or Sanatruk, ca. 157 BC – 70 BC) ruled the Parthian Empire from c. 77 to c. 70 BC. He was a member of the Arsacid house, who, according to work attributed to Lucian, in the troubled times after the death of Mithridates II in ca. 88 BC was made king by the Sacaraucae Scythians or Saka, an Indo-European tribe akin to the Parthians who had invaded Iran in about 77 BC^[1][2].

"Sinatroces, king of Parthia, was restored to his country in his eightieth year by the Sacauracian Scyths, assumed the throne and held it seven years." Makrobioi, 15.^[3]

He died circa 70 BCE and was succeeded by his son Phraates III.^[4]

Sanatruces in Byzantine tradition

Another Sanatruces (Sanatrucius), the son of Mithridates IV is mentioned as an ephemeral Parthian king in AD 115 by John Malalas, in his Chronographia.

Notes

1. ^ "Les villes du sud-ouest de l'Afghanistan. C. Baratin. In: Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l'est et l'ouest, p. 181, ISBN 2503516815
2. ^ "The Commerce of Kapisene and Gandhāra after the Fall of Indo-Greek Rule." K. Walton Dobbins. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Dec., 1971), p. 286.
3. ^ [1] The Makrobioi or 'Long Life'.
4. ^ The Parthians, p. 35. (1967). Malcolm A. R. Colledge. Frederick A. Praeger, New York; Washington.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Lucian, Macrobii, 15;
• Phlegon of Tralles, The Olympiads, preserved in Photius, Bibliotheca, 97.
• Appian, Mithridates, 104.
• Dio Cassius, xxxvi. 45.