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Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace - The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East (Hardcover)
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Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace - The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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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.
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