Hyland John, Rezakhani Khodadad (eds.) Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires

Brill, 2024. — 704 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 9).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.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.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).