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      Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace
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      Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace

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      The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East

      Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace

      DOI link for Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace

      Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace book

      The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East
      ByJason M. Schlude
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 3 February 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351135719
      Pages 238
      eBook ISBN 9781351135719
      Subjects Humanities
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      Schlude, J.M. (2020). Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351135719

      ABSTRACT

      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 the 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 to 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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |21 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Rome and Parthia meet

      From Sulla to Lucullus

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Empires with a boundary

      Pompey and Phraates III

      chapter 3|15 pages

      An opportunist strikes

      Crassus and the battle of Carrhae

      chapter 4|17 pages

      Parthian–Roman fallout

      Orodes II and Mark Antony in the Near East

      chapter 5|24 pages

      A diplomatic restart

      Augustus, Phraates IV, and Phraates V

      chapter 6|24 pages

      Instability at home and abroad

      Diplomacy and war under the Julio-Claudians

      chapter 7|16 pages

      Legions on the Euphrates

      The Parthian policy of the Flavians

      chapter 8|30 pages

      The model of Trajan

      The final stage for Rome and Parthia

      chapter |17 pages

      Conclusion

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