Arsacids, Romans, and local elites : cross-cultural interactions of the Parthian Empire /

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For almost 500 years (247 BCE-224 CE), the Arsacid kings of Parthia ruled over a vast multi-cultural empire, which encompassed much of central Asia and the Near East. The inhabitants of this empire included a complex patchwork of Hellenized Greek-speaking elites, Iranian nobility, and semi-nomadic A...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Schlude, Jason M. (Author, Editor), Rubin, Benjamin B. (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Subjects:
Arsacid dynasty, > 247 B.C.-224 A.D.
To 640
Parthians > History.
Parthes > Histoire.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Manners and customs
Parthians
Iran > Social life and customs.
Iran > History > To 640.
Iran > Histoire > Jusqu'à 651.
Iran
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mithradates I and the Parthian archer / Jeffrey D. Lerner
  • The Seleucids imprisoned: Arsacid-Roman hostage submission and its Hellenistic precedents / Jake Nabel
  • Marcus Antonius' Median War and the dynastic politics of the Near East / Kenneth R. Jones
  • Finding common ground: Roman-Parthian embassies in the Julio-Claudian period / Jason M. Schlude and Benjamin B. Rubin
  • Herod the Great: a Near Eastern case study in Roman-Parthian politics / Jason M. Schlude and J. Andrew Overman
  • Osrhoene and Mesopotamia between Rome and Arsacid Parthia / Peter Edwell
  • Beyond Rome/Parthia: intersections of local and imperial traditions in the visual record of Hatra / Björn Anderson.

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