10-07-2009, 11:07 AM
Hello,
I have a question that has puzzled me for a while and I am hoping someone could shed some light on it. In all the material I have read on the Roman empire and its relations with the Persians the source material is all Greek/Roman. What Persian material exists is inscriptions and the like not historians.
Is there no Persian equivalent to Ammianus/Procopius/Tacitus etc? Or is that there are historians but they haven't been translated to Western languages or there were Persian historians but they have since been lost due to the wars with the Arabs/Mongols?
Thanks for any help
I have a question that has puzzled me for a while and I am hoping someone could shed some light on it. In all the material I have read on the Roman empire and its relations with the Persians the source material is all Greek/Roman. What Persian material exists is inscriptions and the like not historians.
Is there no Persian equivalent to Ammianus/Procopius/Tacitus etc? Or is that there are historians but they haven't been translated to Western languages or there were Persian historians but they have since been lost due to the wars with the Arabs/Mongols?
Thanks for any help
Andrew J M