Parni

The Parni (/ˈpɑːrn/; Ancient Greek: Πάρνοι, Parnoi) or Aparni (/əˈpɑːrn/; Ἄπαρνοι, Aparnoi) were an east Iranian people of the Ochus (Ancient Greek: Ὧχος Okhos) (Tejen) River valley, southeast of the Caspian Sea. The Parni were one of the three tribes of the Dahae confederacy.

In the middle of the 3rd century BCE, the Parni invaded Parthia, "drove away the Greek satraps, who had then only just acquired independence, and founded a new dynasty", that of the Arsacids.

Historical identity and location

There is no unambiguous evidence of the Parnian in native Iranian language sources,cf. and all references to these people comes from Greek and Latin accounts. In these accounts, which are not necessarily contemporaneous, it is difficult to unambiguously identify references to the Parni due to inconsistency of Greek/Latin naming and transliteration, and/or the similarity to names of other tribes such as the Sparni or Apartani and the Eparnoi or Asparioi. It may also be that the Parni are related to one or more of these other tribes, and that "their original homeland may have been southern Russia from where they emigrated with other Scythian tribes."

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

If All The Raindrops

by: Barney

'Barney]
If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops
Oh what a rain that will be
Standing outside with my mouth opened wide
[all]
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops
Oh what a rain that will be
If all the snowflakes were candy bars and milkshakes
Oh what a snow that will be
Standing outside with my mouth opened wide
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
If all the snowflakes were candy bars and milkshakes
Oh what a snow that will be
If all the sun beamss were bubble gum and ice cream
Oh what a sun that will be
Standing outside with my mouth opened wide
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
If all the sun things were bubble gum and ice cream
Oh what a sun that will be.




×