Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Arsacids and Sasanians Investigates Arsacid and early Sasanian political ideologies through their interplay with Roman policy in the East.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 30 October 2011
- Format: Hardback 570 pages
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- Categories: Politics & Government | Middle Eastern History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521766418 ISBN 10: 0521766419
- Sales rank: 935,286
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Full description for Arsacids and Sasanians
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.
