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Re: New theme suggestion - Parthia!
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Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:52:09 GMT
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It's a simplification, but Parthia is one of those varieties of Persia that I
was refering to. Persia of Xerxes and Darius, the Parthians, and the Parthian
successors, the Sassanid Persians, would provide for great building
opportunities while being contemporary with the Macedonian/Greeks and Romans.
Great web site - I'll definitely be exploring it as time permits.
Bruce
In lugnet.castle, Erik Olson writes:
> Hey,
>
> I found a terrific resource on the web. It helps fill in the blank in my
> knowledge: what was in the area between Rome, India, and China? Answer:
> parthia.com! Some of what Wayne Sayles calls "the other ancients". Seriously,
> this web site has a text from "Partian Stations" describing the trade route, • or
> how to ship goods by camel from Zeugma in Turkey (bloody moderns are busy
> eradicating all traces of its history as we speak) to India.
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> I haven't found any pictures of BUILDABLE things, but it's chock full of MAPS,
> like this one:
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> The World According to Eratosthenes
> http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/112A.html
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> Sorry, no castles after all. The Art and Culture section has pictures such as
> 1st century busts (male and female), images of horses, lots of people.
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> See http://parthia.com
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> Excerpt:
> "The warfare between 55 and 20 B.C. had left the two empires with a wholesome
> respect for each other; and Augustus left it as a principle of imperial policy
> that the west bank of the Euphrates was the proper limit for the Roman Empire
> beyond which the power of Rome could not with advantage be extended."
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