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Auteur(s) : Shayegan, M. Rahim (1966-....)
Titre(s) : Arsacids and Sasanians [Texte imprimé] : political ideology in post-Hellenistic and late antique Persia / M. Rahim Shayegan
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIX-539 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians ; 1. Sasanian epigraphy ; 2. Classical
sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus ; 3. Arsacids and Sasanians ; 4. Imitatio
veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome ; Conclusions ; Epilogue ; Appendices
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 430-502. Chronologie
"Sasanian Persia, which succeeded the Parthians, was one of the great powers of late
antiquity and the most significant power in the Near East together with the Roman
Empire. This book undertakes a thorough investigation of the diverse range of written,
numismatic and archaeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian political ideology
and its sources and influences in the ideologies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire,
Babylonian scholarship and prophesy, and Hellenistic Greek thought. It sheds fresh
light on the political complexities of early Arsacid and Sasanian history, especially
the situation in Babylon and Elymais, and on the Roman propaganda which penetrated,
shaped and determined Roman attitudes towards Sasanian Persia"-- ; "The present study
proposes to examine the political ideology of the early Sasanian empire. In doing
so, it shall not only look at Sasanian and Roman relations, but also at Arsacid precedents,
for possible stimuli in the formation of the Sasanian ideology. Already Roman historians
of the third and fourth centuries CE perceived the imperialism of the Sasanians as
infused with the desire to equal, even to surpass, the glory of the kings of old by
recovering formerly Achaemenid territories-by then part of the Roman East. In contrast,
contemporaneous Sasanian royal inscriptions, in particular the res gestae of Sabuhr
the Great and the inscription of king Narseh at Paikuli, neither provide us with a
rationale for the war of conquest waged against Rome, nor do they contain any explicit
references to the historical predecessors of the Sasanians. This conflicting finding
raises questions about historiographical practices in Sasanian Iran and Rome. Indeed,
one wonders how Sasanians recorded their past, or the extent to which they were acquainted
with it; equally important an inquiry is the nature of Roman knowledge of Sasanian
history, as well as the sources whence it had been extracted. Only the elucidation
of these problems would allow us to address our initial query, that is, whether the
early Sasanians experienced an "Achaemenid revival" that might have shaped their political
ideology and prompted their expansionist campaigns against the Roman empire; or whether
the revival ascribed to the Sasanians by Roman literati was in reality a Roman interpretation
comprehensible only in light of Roman political exigencies"--
Sujet(s) : Arsacides (dynastie)
Sassanides (dynastie)
Iran -- Jusqu'à 651
Rome -- 30 av. J.-C.-284
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521766418 (hardback). - ISBN 0521766419 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425308860
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