The Armies of Ancient Persia: The Parthians

Explores the Parthian period, detailing their cavalry-dominated forces, tactics, and victories against Rome.

Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of its Western rivals. Until the conquest by Alexander the Great, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the greatest the world had yet seen, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas. After the collapse of Alexander's empire and that of his Seleucid successors, the P...