Hyland, John O. & Khodadad Rezakhani (eds.). 2024. Brill’s companion to war in the ancient Iranian empires (Brill’s Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 9). Leiden: Brill.
Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines military structures and methods from the Elamite period through the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. War played a critical role in Iranian state formation and dynastic transitions, imperial ideologies and administration, and relations with neighbouring states and peoples from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Twenty chapters by leading experts offer fresh approaches to the study of ancient Iranian armies, strategy, diplomacy, and battlefield methods, and contextualise famous conflicts with Greek and Roman opponents.
Table of Contents
- John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani: “War and Peace in Ancient Iran: Ideologies, Structures, and Practice”
- Javier Álvarez-Mon and Yasmina Wicks: “Like a Raining Cloud: Archery as the Pillar of Elamite Warfare”
- Eduard Rung: “War and Ideology in Achaemenid Persia
Eduard Rung” - Jenn Finn: “The Grand Strategy of Achaemenid Persia, 539–331 BCE”
- John Hyland: “The Achaemenid Military System and Its Campaign Logistics”
- Jeffrey Rop: “The Persian Way of War: Infantry Tactics in the Achaemenid Empire”
- Daniel Beckman: “Achaemenid Diplomacy in Historical Perspective”
- Reinhard Pirngruber: “Impact of Empire: Aspects of Warfare in Babylonia, Achaemenid to Parthian Periods”
- Waldemar Heckel: “lexander and the Iranian Satraps in War and Peace”
- Omar Coloru: “The Military Organisation of the Upper Satrapies Under the Seleucids”
- Nikolaus Overtoom: “Patricide, Fratricide, and Betrayal: the Role of Parthia in the First War with Rome”
- Leonardo Gregoratti: “The Arsacids vs. Rome (First to Third Centuries CE): Observations on Parthian Tactics and Warfare”
- Jake Nabel: “Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy”
- Katarzyna Maksymiuk: “Early Sasanian Expansion and Military Institutions”
- Patryk Skupniewicz and Katarzyna Maksymiuk: “Cavalry Arms and Armour from the Achaemenids to the Sasanians: Iconography and Methods of Reconstruction”
- Robert Haug: “Peroz and the Hephthalites … and the Kidarites, Alkhans, and Sasanians: Warfare, Diplomacy, and the Complexity of the Sasanian East in the Fifth Century”
- Craig Morley: “Persian-Roman Diplomacy in the Fifth Century”
- Henning Börm: “Kavad I, Khosrow I, and the Wars with the Roman Empire”
- Khodadad Rezakhani: “The First Great War of the Middle Ages: the Sasanian Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (602–630 CE) as a Background to the Islamic Futūḥāt“
- Touraj Daryaee: “Epilogue: the Evolution of the Ancient Iranian Army”