M. Rahim Shayegan
Arsacids and Sasanians
ol:OL27840949M
aarecords_metadata
M. Rahim Shayegan
TC51
Source title: Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9233100-L.jpg
Apr 26, 2018
1108456618
1108456618
9781108456616
OL16414417W OL27840949M
en
en
Cambridge University Press
"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 prophesy, 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"--

"The present study proposes to examine the political ideology of the early Sasanian empire. In doing so, it shall not only look at Sasanian and Roman relations, but also at Arsacid precedents, for possible stimuli in the formation of the Sasanian ideology. Already Roman historians of the third and fourth centuries CE perceived the imperialism of the Sasanians as infused with the desire to equal, even to surpass, the glory of the kings of old by recovering formerly Achaemenid territories-by then part of the Roman East. In contrast, contemporaneous Sasanian royal inscriptions, in particular the res gestae of Sabuhr the Great and the inscription of king Narseh at Paikuli, neither provide us with a rationale for the war of conquest waged against Rome, nor do they contain any explicit references to the historical predecessors of the Sasanians. This conflicting finding raises questions about historiographical practices in Sasanian Iran and Rome. Indeed, one wonders how Sasanians recorded their past, or the extent to which they were acquainted with it; equally important an inquiry is the nature of Roman knowledge of Sasanian history, as well as the sources whence it had been extracted. Only the elucidation of these problems would allow us to address our initial query, that is, whether the early Sasanians experienced an "Achaemenid revival" that might have shaped their political ideology and prompted their expansionist campaigns against the Roman empire; or whether the revival ascribed to the Sasanians by Roman literati was in reality a Roman interpretation comprehensible only in light of Roman political exigencies"--
Arsacids and Sasanians
2018
ol:OL27840949M
aarecords_metadata
OL27840949M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9781108456616
en
ol
Arsacids and Sasanians
M. Rahim Shayegan
M.  Rahim Shayegan
Apr 26, 2018
Cambridge University Press

ol:OL27840949M
ol: OL27840949M
OL16414417W ol:OL16414417W
OL27840949M ol:OL27840949M
1108456618 isbn10:1108456618
9781108456616 isbn13:9781108456616
1108456618 asin:1108456618
TC51 lcc:TC51
2018
ol:OL25149245M
aarecords_metadata
M. Rahim Shayegan
935/.07
DS286 .S45 2011
book_unknown
Cambridge, New York, England, 2011
0521766419
9780521766418
2011012101
OL25149245M OL16414416W
en
en
Cambridge University Press
"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 prophesy, 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"--

"The present study proposes to examine the political ideology of the early Sasanian empire. In doing so, it shall not only look at Sasanian and Roman relations, but also at Arsacid precedents, for possible stimuli in the formation of the Sasanian ideology. Already Roman historians of the third and fourth centuries CE perceived the imperialism of the Sasanians as infused with the desire to equal, even to surpass, the glory of the kings of old by recovering formerly Achaemenid territories-by then part of the Roman East. In contrast, contemporaneous Sasanian royal inscriptions, in particular the res gestae of Sabuhr the Great and the inscription of king Narseh at Paikuli, neither provide us with a rationale for the war of conquest waged against Rome, nor do they contain any explicit references to the historical predecessors of the Sasanians. This conflicting finding raises questions about historiographical practices in Sasanian Iran and Rome. Indeed, one wonders how Sasanians recorded their past, or the extent to which they were acquainted with it; equally important an inquiry is the nature of Roman knowledge of Sasanian history, as well as the sources whence it had been extracted. Only the elucidation of these problems would allow us to address our initial query, that is, whether the early Sasanians experienced an "Achaemenid revival" that might have shaped their political ideology and prompted their expansionist campaigns against the Roman empire; or whether the revival ascribed to the Sasanians by Roman literati was in reality a Roman interpretation comprehensible only in light of Roman political exigencies"--
Arsacids and Sasanians
2011
ol:OL25149245M
aarecords_metadata
OL25149245M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780521766418
en
ol
Arsacids and Sasanians
M. Rahim Shayegan
M.  Rahim Shayegan
Cambridge, New York, England, 2011
Cambridge University Press

ol:OL25149245M
ol: OL25149245M
OL25149245M ol:OL25149245M
OL16414416W ol:OL16414416W
0521766419 isbn10:0521766419
9780521766418 isbn13:9780521766418
2011012101 lccn:2011012101
DS286 .S45 2011 lcc:DS286 .S45 2011
935/.07 ddc:935/.07
2011
ol:OL25149244M
aarecords_metadata
M. Rahim Shayegan
935/.07
DS286 .S45 2011
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9233100-L.jpg
Cambridge, New York, England, 2011
0521766419
9780521766418
2011012101
692284699
OL25149244M OL16414417W
en
en
Cambridge University Press
"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 prophesy, 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"--

"The present study proposes to examine the political ideology of the early Sasanian empire. In doing so, it shall not only look at Sasanian and Roman relations, but also at Arsacid precedents, for possible stimuli in the formation of the Sasanian ideology. Already Roman historians of the third and fourth centuries CE perceived the imperialism of the Sasanians as infused with the desire to equal, even to surpass, the glory of the kings of old by recovering formerly Achaemenid territories-by then part of the Roman East. In contrast, contemporaneous Sasanian royal inscriptions, in particular the res gestae of Sabuhr the Great and the inscription of king Narseh at Paikuli, neither provide us with a rationale for the war of conquest waged against Rome, nor do they contain any explicit references to the historical predecessors of the Sasanians. This conflicting finding raises questions about historiographical practices in Sasanian Iran and Rome. Indeed, one wonders how Sasanians recorded their past, or the extent to which they were acquainted with it; equally important an inquiry is the nature of Roman knowledge of Sasanian history, as well as the sources whence it had been extracted. Only the elucidation of these problems would allow us to address our initial query, that is, whether the early Sasanians experienced an "Achaemenid revival" that might have shaped their political ideology and prompted their expansionist campaigns against the Roman empire; or whether the revival ascribed to the Sasanians by Roman literati was in reality a Roman interpretation comprehensible only in light of Roman political exigencies"--
Arsacids and Sasanians
2011
ol:OL25149244M
aarecords_metadata
OL25149244M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780521766418
en
ol
Arsacids and Sasanians
M. Rahim Shayegan
M.  Rahim Shayegan
Cambridge, New York, England, 2011
Cambridge University Press

ol:OL25149244M
ol: OL25149244M
OL25149244M ol:OL25149244M
OL16414417W ol:OL16414417W
0521766419 isbn10:0521766419
9780521766418 isbn13:9780521766418
2011012101 lccn:2011012101
692284699 oclc:692284699
DS286 .S45 2011 lcc:DS286 .S45 2011
935/.07 ddc:935/.07
2011