Conférence de Khodadad Rezakhani : Rome's East: Roman historians on the East

Conférence de Khodadad Rezkhani (Académie Autrichienne des Sciences - OAW (Vienne, Autriche))

dans le cadre du cycle de conférences “The Orient’s East. Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE”

Starting from Hellenistic and early Roman writers, such as Nearchus and Ptolemy, the second session presents the Roman view of the East, in particular from historical and geographical treatises, and uses these works as a chance to see the materials actually coming from the East: Ptolemy and the Kushans (2nd c.), Ammianus and the Huns (4th c.), Joshua the Stylite, Procopius and the Hephthalites (5th-6th c.), Menander Protector and the Sogdians and Turks (6th c.), and, finally, Theophylact Simocatta and the “Turks” (6th-7th c.).

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