Between Rome and Persia
Subtitle: the middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia, and Palmyra under Roman control
By: Peter M. Edwell.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415424783
Subjects: Middle East -- History -- To 622; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D; Rome -- Relations -- Iran; Iran -- Relations -- Rome; Tadmur (Syria) -- History; Euphrates River
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rome on the Euphrates and in Mesopotamia : ca. 65 BC?-ca. AD? 200; title: Palmyra and Rome from the mid-first century BC to the third century AD; title: Roman military organization of the middle Euphrates in the third century AD; title: Dura Europos on the middle Euphrates in the  Parthian and Roman periods; title: Conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia involving the middle Euphrates and Mesopotamia ? AD 224-58.