The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363

Zusatztext 'One cannont too highly commend the editors! in their coverage of the miscellaneous sources. ... the book is an essential aid for researchers in all the interlocking and productive fields which relate to Late Roman! Sasanian! and Manichean history ... All the passages are cited in clear English translations! where necessary revised for the occasion or specially prepared by the editors.'- A D H Bivar! SOAS Informationen zum Autor Samuel N. C. Lieu, Michael H. Dodgeon Klappentext The book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students interested in a period of Roman history that is attracting increased attention. Zusammenfassung The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors, but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period, the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are those in Latin, the imperial lives of the Historia Augusta . These have to be supplemented by the Greek chronicles of Zosimus and John Malalas of Antioch, as well as the Armenian history of Moses of Chorene, the Arabic History of the Arabs of Al-Tabari , as well as inscriptions in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syrian and other languages. This volume collects these diverse sources for the first time in English translation, and will be a uniquely valuable resource for scholars working on a period of Roman history that is attracting increasing attention.

'One cannont too highly commend the editors, in their coverage of the miscellaneous sources. ... the book is an essential aid for researchers in all the interlocking and productive fields which relate to Late Roman, Sasanian, and Manichean history ... All the passages are cited in clear English translations, where necessary revised for the occasion or specially prepared by the editors.' A D H Bivar, SOAS

Autorentext
Samuel N. C. Lieu, Michael H. Dodgeon

Klappentext
The book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students interested in a period of Roman history that is attracting increased attention.

Zusammenfassung
Collects 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.

Inhalt
Introduction Part I: (c. AD 226±352) 1 The Rise of the Sassanians 2 The Persian expedition of Gordian III (the `first campaign' of Shapur I against the Roman Empire) 3 The Second and Third Campaigns of Shapur I against the Roman Empire 4 The Rise and Fall of Palmyra 5 From Probus to Diocletian 6 Rome and Shapur II: Shapur and Constantine 7 Rome and Shapur II: The early wars of Constantius II Part II: (AD 353±363) 8 Rome and Shapur II: The later wars of Constantius II 9 Rome and Shapur II: The Persian Expedition of Julian

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