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Electrum, 2017 Tacitus is the only Roman historian who devoted his works to such an extent to Rome’s eastern neighbor – the Parthian Empire. Scholars have researched the problem of Tacitus’ attitude towards the Parthians on many occasions. It seems that what is the most important question is not Tacitus’ opinion, but the perspective from which he looked at this topic
E. Dąbrowa
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Assimilation of Indo-Parthians in Indian Society: Effects and Results
YMER Digital, 2022 Due to a dearth of relevant information, the Indo Parthian kingdoms are not well-known archaeologically or historically. They aren't mentioned in mythological history or historical records from the early Islamic period.
M. Najafi, V. Shobha
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Jake Nabel. “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome”
Abstracta iranica, 2021 a Iranica Revue bibliographique pour le domaine irano-aryen Volume 42-43 | 2021 Comptes rendus des publications de 2019-2020 Jake Nabel. “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome” Leonardo Gregoratti Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org ...
Leonardo Gregoratti
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A Critical Review of The Roman Historian Tacitus's Book of Annals [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2020 The Roman historian Tacitus’ s Book of Annals is an important historical source on the history of the Parthians and their neighbors. Although Mirsaidi’s, the translator, main focus is on Roman history, this book also has some very important mentions on ...
Yaser Malekzadeh, Sorour Khorashadi
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Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 336-356, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 513-545, November 2023., 2023 Abstract When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However, historical data is globally mostly unavailable, and reconstructions are laborious if comparing outcomes of language contact in a typological way.
Kaius Sinnemäki, Noora Ahola
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M. Licinius Crassus’ Parthian War: Campaign 53 BC [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2019 The article discusses a number of issues related to the Parthian campaign of M. Licinius Crassus. An attempt was made to show that Crassus, on the whole, was quite competent in directing the actions of his army, and he did not immediately lose his ...
Smykov, Evgeniy Vladimirovich
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The Power of Unintended Consequences: Strategic Naïvety, China and the End of the US Empire
The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 420-427, July/September 2023., 2023 Abstract The decline of major global empires has frequently rested upon an act of strategic naïvety. Such an action or decision, although innocuous at the time, results many decades later in those empires collapsing. History is punctuated by examples of great powers that have misjudged the intentions of a rising power, leading to a highly adversarial ...
Chris Ogden, Mark Bhaskar
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A Reassessment of Two Theories of Pourshariatiʼs Thriple View in her “Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran” [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 Parvaneh Pourshariati’s study, “Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire. The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran”, is a substantial investigation that offers a novel perspective supported by a great number of details and data from
Yaser Malekzadeh, Sorour Khorashadi
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
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