Brill's Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires /

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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Other Authors: Hyland, John (Editor), Rezakhani, Khodadad (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies ; 9.

Subjects:

Classical Studies.
History of Warfare.
History.

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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.