As part of the Gorgias Handbook Series, this book provides a political and military history of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity (220s to 651 CE). The book takes the form of a narrative, which situates Sasanian Iran as a continental power between Rome and the world of the steppe nomad.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Eurasia from the Conquests of Alexander to the Fall of Parthia
- II. The Establishment of the House of Sasan
- III. From Shapur I to Shapur II
- IV. The World of the Nomad
- V. Humiliation and Heresy
- VI. The Iranian Recovery
- VII. Triumph and Tribulation
- VIII. The Last War of Antiquity
- IX. The Collapse of the House of Sasan
- X. Observations on the Fall of the Iranian Empire
- Bibliography
- Index