Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-311) and index.
Contents
Before the Achaemenids -- Cyrus the Great and the early Achaemenids -- Darius the Great -- Xerxes and limits of empire -- The Achaemenid Empire from Artaxerxes I to the rise of Macedon -- Darius III and the fall of the empire -- The Seleucids and the rise of the Parthians -- Parthia challenges Rome -- Parthia from Mark Antony to the Alan invasions -- Emperor Trajan's bid to destroy Parthia -- The decline and fall of Parthia -- The rise of the Sassanian Dynasty -- Shapur II: a new revival of Sassanian Persia -- The tumultuous fifth century -- The Kavad era -- Khosrow I, renaissance and revival -- The final glory and the decline of the empire -- Downfall of the Sassanians and the Islamic conquests -- The legacy of Persia after the Islamic conquests.