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Nikolaus L. Overtoom. “The Parthians’ Unique Mode of Warfare: a Tradition of Parthian Militarism and the Battle of Carrhae” [PDF]

, 2019
The young and productive scholar here provides for the first time a systematic analysis of the Parthian warfare. Most of the previous studies, due to both the lack of detailed and specific descriptions of the Parthian way of fighting and major battles ...
Gregoratti, Leonardo
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Żydzi pod rządami Sasanidów [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012
The situation of Jews under the rule of Sasanians differed considerably to the situation in times of Arsacids, who looked kindly on Jewish society. The main reason for that were different aims of Persian policy, which didn’t need such a big support of ...
Jerzy Ciecieląg
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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Arsacid Asia: Sovereignty, Subjection, and the Making of the Silk Roads

, 2023
This is a dissertation in six chapters arguing that the Arsacid dynasty imposed coercive ideologies and institutions upon the political communities of Asia, and so generated the conditions which catalysed the emergence of diplomatic and commercial ...
Baralay, Supratik
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The Arsacid Empire and the Variety of Religious Lives

, 2022
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Dirven, L.A.
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Corbulo versus Vologases : a game of Chess for Armenia [PDF]

, 2017
The available books of Tacitus’ Annales constitute the most important source of information concerning the long war between Rome and the Great King for supremacy in Armenia.
Gregoratti, Leonardo
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King of Kings Ardashir I as Xerxes in the Late Antique Latin Sources

, 2022
The last ruler of the Severan dynasty, Emperor Severus Alexander had to face an entirely new threat in Mesopotamia, because in 224 AD the Parthian royal house of the Arsacids, which had ruled in the East for nearly half a millennium, was dethroned by the
Sólyom, Márk
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Matthew P. Canepa, “Rival Images of Iranian Kingship and Persian Identity in Post-Achaemenid Western Asia” [PDF]

, 2019
In this article, royal identities in post-Achaemenid Asia are explored by focusing on the role that images and rituals of power did play in claiming the legacy of the Achaemenids.
Messina, Vito
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Arsacid dynastic marriages [PDF]

, 2018
Dynastic marriages in the Hellenistic world were an important diplomatic tool that provided distinct political benefi ts to one or both of the parties involved.
Dąbrowa, Edward
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Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire

, 2017
For almost 500 years (247 BCE–224 CE), the Arsacid kings of Parthia ruled over a vast multicultural empire, which encompassed much of central Asia and the Near East. The inhabitants of this empire included a complex patchwork of Hellenized Greek-speaking
Schlude, Jason M.
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