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Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia Shayegan, M. Rahim (University of California, Los Angeles)
Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia
Shayegan, M. Rahim (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sasanian Persia was one of the great powers of late antiquity and the most significant power in the Near East, alongside the Roman Empire. This book reassesses Sasanian political ideology and its sources in the ideologies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Babylonian scholarship and Hellenistic Greek thought.
570 pages, 16 b/w illus. 4 maps 12 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 15, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521766418 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 570 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 159 × 31 mm · 929 g |
| Language | English |