Research Catalog

Title

Rome, Parthia, and the politics of peace : the origins of war in the ancient Middle East / Jason M. Schlude.

Author

Schlude, Jason M.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Details

Description

xvi, 221 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 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, Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace responds to this common misconception by highlighting instead the more cooperative elements in the relationship and shows how a reconciliation of these two perspectives is possible. There was in fact a cyclical pattern in the Roman-Parthian interaction, where a reality of peace and collaboration became overshadowed by images of aggressive posturing projected by powerful Roman statesmen and emperors for a domestic population conditioned to expect conflict. The result was the eventual realization of these images by later Roman opportunists who, unsatisfied with imagined war, sought active conflict with Parthia. Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace is a fascinating new study of these two superpowers that will be of interest not only students of Rome and the Near East, but also to anyone with an interest in diplomatic relations and conflict in the ancient world, and today."--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in ancient history

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in ancient history.

Alternative Title

Origins of war in the ancient Middle East

Subject

• To 510 B.C
• Diplomatic relations
• Rome > Foreign relations > Iran > Parthia
• Parthia > Foreign relations > Rome
• Rome > History > To 510 B.C
• Parthia > History
• Iran > Parthia
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Rome and Parthia Meet: From Sulla to Lucullus -- Empires with a Boundary: Pompey and Phraates III -- An Opportunist Strikes: Crassus and the Battle of Carrhae -- Parthian-Roman Fallout: Orodes II and Mark Antony in the Near East -- A Diplomatic Restart: Augustus, Phraates IV, and Phraates V -- Instability at Home and Abroad: Diplomacy and War under the Julio-Claudians -- Legions on the Euphrates: The Parthian Policy of the Flavians -- The Model of Trajan: The Final Stage for Rome and Parthia.

Call Number

JFE 21-2299

ISBN

• 9780815353706
• 0815353707

LCCN

2019043340

OCLC

1137194630

Author

Schlude, Jason M., author.

Title

Rome, Parthia, and the politics of peace : the origins of war in the ancient Middle East / Jason M. Schlude.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in ancient history

Routledge studies in ancient history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 510 B.C.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781351135696

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2299