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Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires
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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 administration, and relations with neighbouring states and peoples from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Twenty chapters by leading experts offer fresh approaches to the study of ancient Iranian armies, strategy, diplomacy, and battlefield methods, and contextualise famous conflicts with Greek and Roman opponents.
John Hyland is Professor of History at Christopher Newport University. His other books include Persian Interventions: the Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta 450-386 BCE (Johns Hopkins, 2018) and Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford, forthcoming).
Khodadad Rezakhani is a Lecturer at Leiden University and leads the Gerda Henkel Stiftung project, A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad. His books include ReOrienting the Sasanians (Edinburgh, 2017) and Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade and Myth-Making (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Contributors are: Javier Álvarez-Mon, Daniel Beckman, Henning Börm, Omar Coloru, Touraj Daryaee, Jenn Finn, Leonardo Gregoratti, Robert Haug, Waldemar Heckel, John Hyland, Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Craig Morley, Jake Nabel, Nikolaus Overtoom, Reinhard Pirngruber, Khodadad Rezakhani, Jeffrey Rop, Eduard Rung, Patryk Skupniewicz, Yasmina Wicks.
Khodadad Rezakhani is a Lecturer at Leiden University and leads the Gerda Henkel Stiftung project, A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad. His books include ReOrienting the Sasanians (Edinburgh, 2017) and Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade and Myth-Making (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Contributors are: Javier Álvarez-Mon, Daniel Beckman, Henning Börm, Omar Coloru, Touraj Daryaee, Jenn Finn, Leonardo Gregoratti, Robert Haug, Waldemar Heckel, John Hyland, Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Craig Morley, Jake Nabel, Nikolaus Overtoom, Reinhard Pirngruber, Khodadad Rezakhani, Jeffrey Rop, Eduard Rung, Patryk Skupniewicz, Yasmina Wicks.
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
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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