Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires
Hyland, J., & Rezakhani, K. (2024): Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires. Brill's Companions to Classical Studies Vol. 9. Brill. Leiden. ISBN: 978-90-04-71077-1 DOI: 10.1163/9789004710771
Sinopse
A obra examina as estruturas e métodos militares desde o período elamita até os impérios aquemênida, selêucida, arsácida e sassânida. A guerra desempenhou um papel crítico na formação do estado iraniano e nas transições dinásticas, ideologias e administração imperiais e relações com estados e povos vizinhos da Ásia Central ao Mediterrâneo.
Vinte capítulos de especialistas renomados oferecem novas abordagens ao estudo de antigos exércitos iranianos, estratégia, diplomacia e métodos de campo de batalha, e contextualizam conflitos famosos com oponentes gregos e romanos.
INDEX
Chapter 1 War and Peace in Ancient Iran:
Ideologies, Structures, and Practice pp. 1-33
John Hyland & Khodadad Rezakhani
Chapter 2 Like a Raining Cloud: Archery as
the Pillar of Elamite Warfare pp. 34–83
Javier Álvarez-Mon & Yasmina Wicks
Chapter 3 War and Ideology in Achaemenid
Persia pp. 84–119
Eduard Rung
Chapter 4 The Grand Strategy of Achaemenid
Persia, 539–331 BCE pp. 120–156
Jenn Finn
Chapter 5 The Achaemenid Military System
and Its Campaign Logistics pp. 157–186
John Hyland
Chapter 6 The Persian Way of War: Infantry Tactics
in the Achaemenid Empire pp. 187–218
Jeffrey Rop
Chapter 7 Achaemenid Diplomacy in Historical
Perspective pp. 219–251
Daniel Beckman
Chapter 8 Impact of Empire: Aspects of Warfare in
Babylonia, Achaemenid to Parthian Periods pp. 252–275
Reinhard Pirngruber
Chapter 9 Alexander and the Iranian Satraps
in War and Peace pp. 276–303
Waldemar Heckel
Chapter 10 The Military Organisation of the Upper
Satrapies Under the Seleucids pp. 304–328
Omar Coloru
Chapter 11 Patricide, Fratricide, and Betrayal:
the Role of Parthia in the First War with Rome
pp. 329–365
Nikolaus Overtoom
Chapter 12 The Arsacids vs. Rome (First to Third Centuries CE): Observations on Parthian Tactics and Warfare p. 366–399
Leonardo Gregoratti
Chapter 13 Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons
of Ancient Diplomacy pp. 400–434
Jake Nabel
Chapter 14 Early Sasanian Expansion
and Military Institutions pp. 435–475
Katarzyna Maksymiuk
Chapter 15 Cavalry Arms and Armour from the Achaemenids
to the Sasanians: Iconography and Methods of Reconstruction
pp. 476–505
Patryk Skupniewicz & Katarzyna Maksymiuk
Chapter 16 Peroz and the Hephthalites … and the Kidarites,
Alkhans, and Sasanians: Warfare, Diplomacy, and the
Complexity of the Sasanian East in the Fifth Century
pp. 506–537
Robert Haug
Chapter 17 Persian-Roman Diplomacy
in the Fifth Century pp. 538–565
Craig Morley
Chapter 18 Kavad I, Khosrow I, and the Wars
with the Roman Empire pp. 566–599
Henning Börm
Chapter 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
pp. 600–653
Khodadad Rezakhani
Chapter 20 Epilogue: the Evolution of the
Ancient Iranian Army pp. 654–664
Touraj Daryaee
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