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The Provinces of the Roman Empire - Volume 2

Theodor Mommsen

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. . .Persian son of a Persian, an Arian from Arian stock," Ardashir named himself, as we saw, simply king of the Arians. We do not know whether Persian elements were introduced afresh into the great houses apart from the royal; in any case several of them remained, like the Surên and the Carên; only under the Achaemenids, not under the Sassanids these were exclusively Persian.

Church and priesthood under the Sassanids.Even in a religious point of view no change, strictly so called, set in; but the faith and the priests gained under the Persian great-kings an influence and a power such as they had never possessed under the Parthian. It may well be that the twofold diffusion of foreign worships in the direction of Iran—of Buddhism from the East and of the Jewish-Christian faith from the West—brought by their very hostility a regeneration to the old religion of Mazda. The founder of the new dynasty, Ardashir, was, as is credibly re. . . Read More

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- Erik - Apr 24, 2013

Studying the history of Rome as a hobby since taking a couple of years of Latin in high school, Theodor Mommsen's name came up again and again. Although an historian of the 19th century, this, volume five of his History of Rome, still stands as a foundational overview of the imperial provinces.

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