M. Rahim Shayegan is Assistant Professor of Iranian at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on ancient Iranian history and philology, and is co-editor, with Carol Bakhos, of The Talmud in its Iranian Context (2010).

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• Introduction; Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians; 1. Sasanian epigraphy; 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus; 3. Arsacids and Sasanians; 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome; Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendices.

M. Rahim Shayegan is Assistant Professor of Iranian at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on ancient Iranian history and philology, and is co-editor, with Carol Bakhos, of The Talmud in its Iranian Context (2010).

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• Introduction; Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians; 1. Sasanian epigraphy; 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus; 3. Arsacids and Sasanians; 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome; Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendices.

M. Rahim Shayegan is Assistant Professor of Iranian at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on ancient Iranian history and philology, and is co-editor, with Carol Bakhos, of The Talmud in its Iranian Context (2010).

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• Introduction; Preamble: Achaemenids and Sasanians; 1. Sasanian epigraphy; 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus; 3. Arsacids and Sasanians; 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Alexandri in Rome; Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendices.