عنوان

Emulating Alexander

1526703017

1526703025

9781526703019

9781526703026

1526703009

9781526703002

Emulating Alexander

[Book]

How Alexander the Great's Legacy Fuelled Rome's Wars With Persia.

Pen & Sword

2017.

1 online resource

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rome and Parthia; Rome; Parthia; Chapter 2 First Impressions; Sulla: To the East; Pompey: The New Alexander; Summary; Chapter 3 Parthia Triumphant: Crassus and Antony; Crassus: In the footsteps of Alexander; Julius Caesar: Persian Dreams; Mark Antony: Persian nightmares; Summary; Chapter 4 The Empire Strikes Back; Augustus Caesar: The Diplomat; Tiberius: The Hated Enemy; Nero: The Great Compromise; The Flavians: Roman Revenge; Trajan: In Alexander's Footsteps; Summary.

Chapter 5 Marcus Aurelius: Unintended ConsequencesVerus: Victory and Death; Commodus: The Comforts of Home; Summary; Chapter 6 The Severans: Father and Son Invade Iraq; Septimius Severus: Parthia laid low; Caracalla: The Last Battle with Parthia; Summary; Chapter 7 The Sasanians; Worthy Successors; Chapter 8 Shapur I, King of Kings; Chapter 9 Diocletian: Roman Revival; Chapter 10 Shapur II: The Great One; Chapter 11 Julian: The Soul of Alexander; The Last Offensive; Chapter 12 The Sasanian wars with Byzantium: The waning of Alexander; Chapter 13 Heraclius and Khusro II: Greek Tragedy.

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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.

Emulating Alexander.

1526703009

Diplomatic relations.

HISTORY-- Ancient-- Rome.

Rome, Foreign relations, Iran.

Iran.

Rome (Empire)

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