Nikolaus L. Overtoom. “The Parthians’ Unique Mode of Warfare: a Tradition of Parthian Militarism and the Battle of Carrhae”
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The young and productive scholar here provides for the first time a systematic analysis of the Parthian warfare. Most of the previous studies, due to both the lack of detailed and specific descriptions of the Parthian way of fighting and major battles fought by the Arsacids, focused on the most famous and most reported military episode in Parthian history: the Battle of Carrhae. It is author’s opinion that the relevant attention given almost exclusively to this military action contributed to...
Source: Abstracta Iranica
Author: Leonardo Gregoratti
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2991189674