The Arsacids - Epic Iranian Music

You can buy this song and the rest of my music here: Music and vocals by Farya Faraji. Please keep in mind that this is in no way a reconstruction of Ancient Iranian music, it’s modern Iranian music with an ancient thematic. This is a theme I wrote around the idea of the Arsacid dynasty, who would usher in the Parthian Empire, the second of the major Iranian empires of Antiquity, and the only one of the three not to be Persian. The Arsacid or Parthian Empire is often relegated to the status of the middle-child between the older, unanimously known Achaemenid sibling, and the later, highly prestigious Sasanian Empire. The Parthian Empire, however, was no footnote of West Eurasian history, and it played a major part both as an Iranian superpower and as an arch-rival to the Romans for centuries. The Arsacid dynasty first emerged as members of the Parni tribe, likely speakers of a Northeastern Iranian language, and in time, would come to adopt the