M. Rahim Shayegan is Assistant Professor of Iranian at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on ancient Iranian history and philology, and is co-editor, with Carol Bakhos, of The Talmud in its Iranian Context (2010).
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Introduction Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians 1. Sasanian epigraphy 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus 3. Arsacids and Sasanians 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome Conclusions Epilogue Appendices.
