Arsacids and Sasanians
Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia
- Author: M. Rahim Shayegan, University of California, Los Angeles
- Date Published: April 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108456616
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Sasanian Persia, which succeeded the Parthians, was one of the great powers of late antiquity and the most significant power in the Near East, together with the Roman Empire. This book undertakes a thorough investigation of the diverse range of written, numismatic, and archaeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian political ideology and its sources and influences in the ideologies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Babylonian scholarship and prophecy, and Hellenistic Greek thought. It sheds fresh light on the political complexities of early Arsacid and Sasanian history, especially the situation in Babylon and Elymais, and on the Roman propaganda which penetrated, shaped, and determined Roman attitudes towards Sasanian Persia.
Read more- Proposes a new reconstruction of the early history of the Arsacid (Parthian) and Sasanian dynasties
- Presents new and fragmented cuneiform sources hitherto unavailable
- Uses a comparative and holistic approach (Seleucid, Roman and Persian perspectives - as well as classical and oriental sources - are fully taken into account)
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- Date Published: April 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108456616
- length: 569 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.86kg
- contains: 16 b/w illus. 4 maps 12 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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