BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ANCIENT SOURCES; INTRODUCTION; 1 ROME ON THE EUPHRATES AND IN MESOPOTAMIA, c.65 BC-c. AD 200; 2 PALMYRA AND ROME FROM THE MID-FIRST CENTURY BC TO THE THIRD CENTURY AD; 3 ROMAN MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES IN THE THIRD CENTURY AD; 4 DURA EUROPOS ON THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES IN THE PARTHIAN AND ROMAN PERIODS; 5 CONFLICT BETWEEN ROME AND SASANIAN PERSIA INVOLVING THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES, MESOPOTAMIA AND PALMYRA, AD 224-258; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This detailed history of Rome?s relationship with its Persian neighbour from Peter Edwell takes an innovative regional approach and covers the period from the first century BC to the third century AD
