1. Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (Princeton 1950), pp. 683-684; Millar, F., The Roman Near East (London – Cambridge – Massachusetts 1994), pp. 142-143; Μπουραζέλης, Κ., Θεία Δωρεά. Μελέτες πάνω στην πολιτική της δυναστείας των Σεβήρων και την Constitutio Antoniniana (Athens 1989), pp. 43-51. On Caracalla’s imitation and unmeasured worship of Alexander III, Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Antoninus Caracallus 2.1-3; Herodian. 4.8.1.-2; Dio 78 (77).7. 2. Dio 78 (77).12.2-3.13.3. On the number of Parthian kings under the name Vologases and Artabanus, according to recent evidence, CHI 3 (1), p. 94 and note 1 (A.D.H. Bivar). 3. Dio 78 (77).12.1-2. The exact dating of the arrests remains under debate. 4. Dio 78 (77).16.7; Herodian. 4.8.1-3. 5. Dio 78 (77).16.7-8; Herodian. 4.8.1-3. 6. IGR IV 1247. 7. For a further analysis see Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (Princeton 1950), pp. 684-685, 1551-1553, notes 41-42. 8. Dio 78 (77).18.1, 19.1. 9. Dio 78 (77).18.4. 10. Dio 78 (77)20.1; Herodian. 4.8.6. On the itinerary see Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (Princeton 1950), p. 1553, note 43. 11. Debevoise, N.C., A Political History of Parthia (Chicago 1969), pp. 263-264 and notes. 12. Wells, C.B. – Fink, R.O. – Gilliam, F.G., The excavations at Dura Europos, Final report VI (New Haven 1959), p. 25. 13. Dio 78 (77).7.1.-2; Herodian. 4.8.2. 14. Herodian. 4.8.3. 15. Dio 80 (79).4.5. 16. Dio 78 (77).19.1-2. Tiridates was probably a Parthian prince who claimed and ascended to the throne of Armenia with Vologases support after the king and his sons’ arrest, but abandoned the country after Caracalla’s approach, Mommsen, T., The Provinces of the Roman Empire 2 (London 1886), p. 87. 17. Dio 78 (77).21.1. The dating of the defeat in Armenia is uncertain. Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (Princeton 1950), pp. 1553-1554, note 43. 18. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Antoninus Caracallus, 6.2; Herodian. 4.8.6; Dio 78 (77)22. 19. Dio 79 (79).1.1; Herodian. 4.10. 20. Debevoise, N.C., A Political History of Parthia (Chicago 1969), p. 265. 21. According to not so credible Herodian. 4.11.1-6, Artabanus finally agreed to give his daughter to Caracalla who arrived in the parthian court and gave his soldiers the order to slaughter the unarmed and unsuspected Parthians during the wedding celebrations, whereas the king barely managed to escape. 22. Dio 79 (78)1.1-2, 3.1; Herodian. 4.11.7-9. The information about the advance to Media might be precise but the information about extensive operations up to the land of the Cadusians and Babylon are considered insubstantial. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Antoninus Caracallus, 6.4-5; Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (Princeton 1950), p. 1554, note 45. 23. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Antoninus Caracallus, 6.6-7; Herodian. 4.13.3-8; Dio 79 (78).4-5. |