From Oxus to Euphrates

For a long time Sasanian studies were mainly cultivated by linguists and historians of religion and the only standard work on the history of the Sasanian Empire was Arthur Christensen's L'Iran sous les Sassanides (Copenhagen 1936; second revised and expanded edition 1944). Only in recent years Christensen's authority was challenged: Several new syntheses eventually allowed Late antique scholars to better understand the history and the structure of the great rival of the Roman Empire. However we still lacked a handy student-friendly introduction to Sasanians studies. Now Daryaee and Rezakhani provide us with this very welcome booklet which I highly recommend to students to an educated audience but also to Classical scholars (it's never too late).Giusto TrainaParis-Sorbonne University