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Author: Michael H. Dodgeon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1134961146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects and translates such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene, to give us a picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history.
Author: Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2007-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415465304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLate Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, with the Romans and Persians engaged in almost constant conflict. This book provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides.
Author: Beate Dignas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-09-13
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 052184925X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.
Author: John S. Harrel
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-02-29
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1473848318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of the Roman Empire’s combat with its rivals to the east examines the evolution of ancient military strategy and tactics. During the Perso-Roman wars of 337-363, Roman forces abandoned their traditional reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive victory. Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defense based upon small frontier forces defending fortified cities. These forces were then supported by limited counteroffensives by the Field Army of the East. These methods successfully checked Persian assaults for twenty-four years. However, when Julian became emperor, his access to greater resources tempted him to abandon mobile defense in favor of a major invasion aimed at regime change in Persia. Although he reached the Persian capital, he failed to take it. In fact, he was defeated in battle and killed. The Romans subsequently resumed and refined the mobile defense, allowing the Eastern provinces to survive the fall of the Western Empire. In this fascinating study, John Harrel applies his personal experience of military command to a strategic, operational, tactical and logistical analysis of these campaigns and battles, highlighting their long-term significance.
Author: Samuel Lieu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1134871198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English.
Author: Kyle Smith
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0520308395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.
Author: Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-29
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1134756453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLate Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict. This book, sequel to the volume covering the years 226-363 AD, provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides, taken from a wide range of sources. Many have never before been available in a modern language, and all are fully set in context with expert commentary and extensive annotation. For more information please visit the author's supplementary website at http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~greatrex/ref.html
Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-03
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521568227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani, the Syrian visionary.
Author: Mark W. Graham
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780472115624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel interpretation of Roman frontier policy
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004370927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious, and literary contexts. Drawing on the recent Representational Turn in the study of imperial power, these essays examine how literary authors working in various genres, both Latin and Greek, and of differing religious affiliations construct and manipulate the depiction of a series of emperors from the late third to the late fourth centuries CE. In a move away from traditional source criticism, this volume opens up new methodological approaches to chart intellectual and literary history during a critical century for the ancient Mediterranean world.
