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Emulating Alexander How Alexander the Great’s Legacy Fuelled Rome’s Wars with Persia 1st Edition by Glenn Barnett 9781526703002 1526703009

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Author(s): Glenn Barnett
ISBN(s): 9781526703002, 1526703009
Edition: Hardcover
File Details: PDF, 3.68 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1526703009

ISBN 13: 9781526703002

Author: Glenn Barnett

This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before the events. Numerous Roman emperors led armies eastward against the Persians, seeking to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of Alexander. Some achieved successes but more often the result was ignominious defeat or death. Even as the empire declined, court propagandists and courtiers looked for flattering ways to compare their now-throne-bound emperors with Alexander. All the while there was a small segment of the Roman intelligentsia who disparaged Alexander and his misdeeds.While the Romans dreamed of conquering the Persian realm, the Persians of the Parthian and Sasanian dynasties dreamed of regaining the lands of the eastern Mediterranean snatched from their Achaemenid ancestors by Alexander. Echoes of this revanchist policy can be seen in Iran’s support of Shiites in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Glenn Barnett draws comparisons between the era-long struggle of Rome and Persia with the current wars in the Middle-East where they once fought.

Table of contents:

  1. Rome and Parthia

  2. First Impressions

  3. Parthia Triumphant: Crassus and Antony

  4. The Empire Strikes Back

  5. Marcus Aurelius: Unintended Consequences

  6. The Severans: Father and Son Invade Iraq

  7. The Sasanians

  8. Shapur I, King of Kings

  9. Diocletian: Roman Revival

  10. Shapur II: The Great One

  11. Julian: The Soul of Alexander

  12. The Sasanian Wars with Byzantium: The Waning of Alexander

  13. Heraclius and Khusro II: Greek Tragedy

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