Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires

John Hyland, Khodadad Rezakhani (Herausgeber)

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384 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70821-1 (ISBN)

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Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines the military activities and related policies of the Elamite, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. Twenty essays explore numerous dimensions of ancient Iranian warfare, diplomacy, and military organisation.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World ; 09
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1289 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-70821-9 / 9004708219
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70821-1 / 9789004708211
Zustand	Neuware