A narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.

Narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.

Details Persias growing military and economic power in the late antique worldThe Sasanian Empire (3rd7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity,

This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. Duri

James Howard-Johnston here focuses on the last great war of antiquity, that between East Rome and Sasanian Persia (603-628) which brought the classical phase of