AHIS342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sibylline Oracles, Ramesses Ii, Uranius
16 Apr 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Very important time for the relationship between the romans and the sasanian persians. Romans accepting of the power of ^ Romans and sasanian shaping each others attitudes to empires. Phillip, praetorian prefect, elevated to the position of emperor. Phillip reaches agreement with shapur 1 for the return of the army. Graeco-roman sources focus on gordian"s death and phillips treachery (internally focussed as opposed to the facts of what happened) (put gordian in harms way to be elevated in position to emperor) Persian tradition focusses on shapers victory over gordian iii (pg 50, skz; armenia had formed arrangement between phillip and shapur 1, phillip had agreed to pay a form of tribute, a piece of. * public propaganda* he would get whats left of the army, annual payment to be made, phillip lied again and did a injustice to armenia) (sasanian"s always have to have an eye on their eastern frontier) Ad252-60-sasanian persian invasions of roman syria, mesopotamia, armenia & cappadocia.
