query: noble_family orodes iii of parthia
supports: Titus (30 December 39 AD  13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own biological father. Arsaces I ("Arshak") was the founder of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia, and after whom all 30+ monarchs of the Arsacid empire officially named themselves. A celebrated descent from antiquity (the Bagratid "line") begins with Arsaces. Arsaces or Ashk has also given name to the city of Ashkabad. Orodes III ( Persian :    ) was raised to the throne of the Parthian Empire around 4 AD by the magnates after the death of Phraates V ( reigned ca . 2 BC -- AD 4 ) . He was killed after a short reign `` on account of his extreme cruelty '' ( Josephus ) . After his death , Phraates V 's brother Vonones I ( reigned ca . 8 -- 12 ) tried to assume the throne , but a civil war with Artabanus III ( reigned ca . 10 -- 38 ) followed . The Parthian Empire (247 BC  224 AD), also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran and Iraq. Its latter name comes from Arsaces I of Parthia who, as leader of the Parni tribe, founded it in the mid-3rd century BC when he conquered the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a satrapy (province) in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire. Mithridates I of Parthia (r. "c". 171138 BC) greatly expanded the empire by seizing Media and Mesopotamia from the Seleucids. At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce. Titus Flavius Josephus (37  100), born Joseph ben Matityahu (Hebrew:   , "Yosef ben Matityahu"; Greek:  ), was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalemthen part of Roman Judeato a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry. The Seleucid Empire ("Basileía tn Seleukidn") was a Hellenistic state ruled by the Seleucid dynasty, which existed from 312 BC to 63 BC; it was founded by Seleucus I Nicator following the division of the Macedonian empire vastly expanded by Alexander the Great. Seleucus received Babylonia and, from there, expanded his dominions to include much of Alexander's near eastern territories. At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, Persia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and what is now Kuwait, Afghanistan, and parts of Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
candidates: arsacid dynasty of parthia flavian dynasty seleucid empire
answer: arsacid dynasty of parthia