Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East
Jason M. Schlude, "Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East "
English | ISBN: 0815353707 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0815353707 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95 BCE to 224 CE. Schlude explores the rhythms of this relationship and invites its readers to reconsider the past and our relationship with it.
Some have looked to this confrontation to help explain the roots of the long-lived conflict between the West and the Middle East. It is a reading symptomatic of most scholarship on the subject, which emphasizes fundamental incompatibility and bellicosity in Roman–Parthian relations. Rather than focusing on the relationship as a series of conflicts,
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