Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires

John Hyland is Professor of History at Christopher Newport University. His other books include Persian Interventions: the Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta 450-386 BCE (Johns Hopkins, 2018) and Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford, forthcoming). Khodadad Rezakhani is a Lecturer at Leiden University and leads the Gerda Henkel Stiftung project, A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad. His books include ReOrienting the Sasanians (Edinburgh, 2017) and Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade and Myth-Making (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Contributors are: Javier Álvarez-Mon, Daniel Beckman, Henning Börm, Omar Coloru, Touraj Daryaee, Jenn Finn, Leonardo Gregoratti, Robert Haug, Waldemar Heckel, John Hyland, Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Craig Morley, Jake Nabel, Nikolaus Overtoom, Reinhard Pirngruber, Khodadad Rezakhani, Jeffrey Rop, Eduard Rung, Patryk Skupniewicz, Yasmina Wicks.

Preface


List of Figures and Maps


Notes on Names and Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors





1 War and Peace in Ancient Iran: Ideologies, Structures, and Practice


 John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani





2 Like a Raining Cloud: Archery as the Pillar of Elamite Warfare


 Javier Álvarez-Mon and Yasmina Wicks





3 War and Ideology in Achaemenid Persia


 Eduard Rung





4 The Grand Strategy of Achaemenid Persia, 539–331 BCE


 Jenn Finn





5 The Achaemenid Military System and Its Campaign Logistics


 John Hyland





6 The Persian Way of War: Infantry Tactics in the Achaemenid Empire


 Jeffrey Rop





7 Achaemenid Diplomacy in Historical Perspective


 Daniel Beckman





8 Impact of Empire: Aspects of Warfare in Babylonia, Achaemenid to Parthian Periods


 Reinhard Pirngruber





9 Alexander and the Iranian Satraps in War and Peace


 Waldemar Heckel





10 The Military Organisation of the Upper Satrapies Under the Seleucids


 Omar Coloru





11 Patricide, Fratricide, and Betrayal: the Role of Parthia in the First War with Rome


 Nikolaus Overtoom





12 The Arsacids vs. Rome (First to Third Centuries CE): Observations on Parthian Tactics and Warfare


 Leonardo Gregoratti





13 Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy


 Jake Nabel





14 Early Sasanian Expansion and Military Institutions


 Katarzyna Maksymiuk





15 Cavalry Arms and Armour from the Achaemenids to the Sasanians: Iconography and Methods of Reconstruction


 Patryk Skupniewicz and Katarzyna Maksymiuk





16 Peroz and the Hephthalites … and the Kidarites, Alkhans, and Sasanians: Warfare, Diplomacy, and the Complexity of the Sasanian East in the Fifth Century


 Robert Haug





17 Persian-Roman Diplomacy in the Fifth Century


 Craig Morley





18 Kavad I, Khosrow I, and the Wars with the Roman Empire


 Henning Börm





19 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


 Khodadad Rezakhani





20 Epilogue: the Evolution of the Ancient Iranian Army


 Touraj Daryaee


Index