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2010 Spring - HISTM110C-1 - MORONY

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HISTORY M110C

SASANIAN IRAN

Spring 2010
M. Morony
office: 6242 Bunche
hours: TR 11-noon
e-mail: [email-masked]

TR 9:30-10:45 am
Dodd 146

This course is a survey of the history of
the Sasanian State during
Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh century C.E. Attention
will be paid to issues of interpretation,
and to the identification and use of contemporary written sources,
material objects, architecture, and visual images to reconstruct the
political and religious institutions of this period and how they
changed.

Course credit will be based on the combined score of two
five-page take-home midterm essays (50 points apiece) and a final
examination on Tuesday, June 8, from 8:00 to 11:00 am

REQUIRED READING:

APS Reader: Sasanian
Iran

ON RESERVE:

The Cambridge History of
Iran,
Vol III, The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian

Periods

R. Frye, The History of
Ancient Iran

J. Wiesehöfer, Ancient Persia

A. Perikhanian, The Book of a Thousand Judgments
(A Sasanian Law-Book)

CLASS SCHEDULE

AND

READING
ASSIGNMENTS

1. Problems and issues in Sasanian history Lecture

#3 Frye,
R.N., “The Sasanians”, The History of
Ancient Iran (1983),

pp. 287-339

#4 Morony, M., “Sāsānids”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, pp.
70-83

2. What everyone should know
about the Parthians Lecture

3. The rise of the Sasanian state: Ardashir I Lecture

#5 Dio
Cassius: 80. 3. 1-4. 2

#6 Herodian: 4. 2. 1-4.
2. 10

#7 Huff,
D., “Formation and Ideology of the Sasanian State in the
Context

of Archaeological
Evidence”

4. The age of Shahpur I (243-73) Lecture

#7 Frye, R.N., “The Inscription
of Shapur I at Naqsh-e Rustam in
Fars”

#8 MacKenzie, D.N., “Shapur’s Shooting”

5. Early third-century issues Lecture

#12 Henrichs, A., “Mani and the Babylonian Baptists:
A Historical

Confrontation”

6. Religion and the state: the
third century Lecture

#9 Kirdir’s inscription at Naqsh-I Rustam

#10 Frye, R.N., “The Middle
Persian Inscription of Kartir at Naqs-I Rajab”

#11 Skjærvø, P., “`Kirdir’s Vision’: Translation and
Analysis”

#13 Russell, J.R., “Kartîr and Mânî: A sxhamanistic model of
their conflict”

#14 Shaked, S., “Administrative Functions of Priests
in the Sasanian

Period”

7. The late third century Lecture

#15 Choksy, J.K., “A Sasanian Monarch, His Queen, Crown Prince, and

Dieties: The Coinage of Wahrâm II”

#16 Humbach, H., and Skjærvø, P.O., The Sassanian
Inscription of Paikuli

#34 Rose, J.,
“Three Queens, Two Wives, and a
Goddess. The roles and

Images of Women in Sasanian Iran”, pp.
37-48

8. The Sasanian state in the fourth century Lecture

#17 Frye, R.N., “The Persepolis Middle Persian
Inscriptions from the Time

of Shapur II”

#18 Ammianus Marcellinus:
16. 9, 17. 5, 17.
14, 18. 69, 23- 6,
24. 1 - 25. 9

9. Fourth-century themes and
issues

#21 Brock, S., “Christians in the
Sasanian Empire: A Case of
Divided

Loyalties

#22 Brock, S. and Harvey, S., “Persian Martyrs” pp.
63-73

#24
Harper, P.O., Skjærvø, P.O., Gorelick, L., and Gwinnet, A.J., “A
Seal-

Amulet of the Sasanian Era: Imagery and Typology, the
Inscription,

and
Technical Comments”

#25 Shaked, S., “Notes on the Pahlavi Amulet and
Sasanian Courts of

Law”

10. The successors of Shapur II: late fourth to early fifth
century

#23 Socrates Scholasticus: 7. 9, 7. 18, 7. 20-21

#27 Henning, W.B., “The
Inscription of Firuzabad”

#28 Bier, L., “Notes on Mihr Narseh’s Bridge
near Firuzabad”

#29 Mihr-Narsêh in the Mâtigân î
Hazâr Dâdistân

11. The mid-fifth
century

#19 Daryaee, T., “National History of Keyanid History?: The
Nature of

Sasanid
Zoroastrian Historiography

#22 Brock, S. and Harvey, S., “Persian Martyrs”, pp.
77-99

#30 Ełishe Vardapet:
14-17

#31 Garsoïan, N., “The Two Voices of Armenian
Historiography: The

Iranian Index

#32 Procopius of Caesarea: 1. 2 - 1.
4

12. Kavad I and the Mazdakan

#32 Procopius of Caesarea: 1. 5 -
1.6

#35 Gaube, H., “Mazdak:
Historical Reality or Invention”

#36 Crone, P., “Kavad’s
Heresy and Mazdak’s Revolt”

13. The Sasanian recovery in the sixth
century

#33 Agathias Scholasticus:
2. 23 - 2. 32 and
4. 23 - 4. 30

#34 Rose, J.,
“Three Queens, Two Wives, and a
Goddess. The roles

and
Images of Women in Sasanian
Iran”, pp.
29-37

#26 Morony, M., “Magic and Society in Late Sasanian Iraq”, pp.
1-42

14. The sixth century: political
and military events

#37 Menander Protector: 6.
1-3

15. The reign of Khusraw II (591-628)

#38 Theophylact Simocatta:
3. 16. 7 - 5. 12

#39 Frendo, D., Theophylact Simocatta
on the Revolt of Bahram Chobin

and the
Early Career of Khusraw II

#40 Antiochos Strategos

#41 Chronicon Paschale: 704-736

16. The fall of the Sasanians

#42
al-Tabari: 1. 2426 –
2456

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