Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia

ISBN-13: 9781108456616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 569 str.

M. Rahim Shayegan

Opis

Investigates Arsacid and early Sasanian political ideologies through their interplay with Roman policy in the East.

Spis treści

Introduction; Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians; 1. Sasanian epigraphy; 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus; 3. Arsacids and Sasanians; 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome; Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendices.