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ANABASIS. STUDIA CLASSICA ET ORIENTALIA Volume 8 (2017)

Volume eight of “Anabasis“, edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht is out now. Several papers and reviews of this issue are related to ancient Iran:

 

ARTICLES

  • Michał Podrazik: The skēptouchoi of Cyrus the Younger
  • Waldemar Heckel: Was Sibyrtios ever Satrap of Karmania?
  • Marc Mendoza Sanahuja: Stasanor of Soloi and the Government of Bactria during the Wars of the Diadochi
  • Nikolaus L. Overtoom: The Parthians’ Unique Mode of Warfare: a Tradition of Parthian Militarism and the Battle of Carrhae
  • Ehsan Shavarebi: Sakastān in der frühen Sasanidenzeit: Münzprägung und Geschichte
  • Robert Sebastian Wójcikowski: Helmets, Crowns or Hats? The Headgears on the Early Sasanian Rock Reliefs
  • Alireza Askari Chaverdi: Fluted Conical Pedestals for Altars from the Persian Gulf Coast: Bardestan
  • Touraj Daryaee: Middle Persian Graffiti on Sāsānian and Arab-Sāsānian Coins at the American Numismatic Society

REVIEW ARTICLES

  • Michał Podrazik: Rebellions against the Great King in the Achaemenid Empire: Some Remarks
  • Valentina I. Mordvintseva: Sarmatian Treasures Reconsidered. Some Remarks on the New Book by Leo Klein
  • Marek Jan Olbrycht: Slipper Coffins and Funerary Practices in Parthia

REVIEWS

  • Luisa Prandi: Michael Rathmann, Diodor und seine Bibliotheke. Weltgeschichte aus der Provinz, (Klio – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Band 27) Berlin-Boston: W. De Gruyter 2016
  • Martin Schottky: Jan P. Stronk, Semiramis’ Legacy. The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily, (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia), Edinburgh: University Press, 2017
  • Jacek Rzepka: Sabine Müller, Die Argeaden. Geschichte Makedoniens bis zum Zeitalter Alexanders des Großen, Paderborn/München/Wien: Schöningh 2016