Brill's Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires /
Brill's Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines military structures and methods from the Elamite period through the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. War played a critical role in Iranian state formation and dynastic transitions, imperial ideologies and admin...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Preface -- List of Figures and Maps -- Notes on Names and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 War and Peace in Ancient Iran: Ideologies, Structures, and Practice -- John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani -- 2 Like a Raining Cloud: Archery as the Pillar of Elamite Warfare -- Javier Álvarez-Mon and Yasmina Wicks -- 3 War and Ideology in Achaemenid Persia -- Eduard Rung -- 4 The Grand Strategy of Achaemenid Persia, 539-331 BCE -- Jenn Finn -- 5 The Achaemenid Military System and Its Campaign Logistics -- John Hyland -- 6 The Persian Way of War: Infantry Tactics in the Achaemenid Empire -- Jeffrey Rop -- 7 Achaemenid Diplomacy in Historical Perspective -- Daniel Beckman -- 8 Impact of Empire: Aspects of Warfare in Babylonia, Achaemenid to Parthian Periods -- Reinhard Pirngruber -- 9 Alexander and the Iranian Satraps in War and Peace -- Waldemar Heckel -- 10 The Military Organisation of the Upper Satrapies Under the Seleucids -- Omar Coloru -- 11 Patricide, Fratricide, and Betrayal: the Role of Parthia in the First War with Rome -- Nikolaus Overtoom -- 12 The Arsacids vs. Rome (First to Third Centuries CE): Observations on Parthian Tactics and Warfare -- Leonardo Gregoratti -- 13 Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy -- Jake Nabel -- 14 Early Sasanian Expansion and Military Institutions -- Katarzyna Maksymiuk -- 15 Cavalry Arms and Armour from the Achaemenids to the Sasanians: Iconography and Methods of Reconstruction -- Patryk Skupniewicz and Katarzyna Maksymiuk -- 16 Peroz and the Hephthalites ... and the Kidarites, Alkhans, and Sasanians: Warfare, Diplomacy, and the Complexity of the Sasanian East in the Fifth Century -- Robert Haug -- 17 Persian-Roman Diplomacy in the Fifth Century -- Craig Morley -- 18 Kavad I, Khosrow I, and the Wars with the Roman Empire -- Henning Börm -- 19 The First Great War of the Middle Ages: the Sasanian Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (602-630 CE) as a Background to the Islamic Futūḥāt -- Khodadad Rezakhani -- 20 Epilogue: the Evolution of the Ancient Iranian Army -- Touraj Daryaee -- Index. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Rezakhani, Khodadad, |e editor. | |
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