Were the Sasanians Barbarians - Roman Writers on the Sasanian Empire

[davidb]

https://www.academia.edu/25169728/Were_The_Sasanians_Barbarians_Roman_Writers_on_the_Empire_of_the_Persians_?auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest

Thought people might find this interesting.

[DougM]

Interesting piece, but it still takes us no further forward, as his critique of Agathias is based upon the assumption that Agathias was basing his anti-Persian prejudice on better evidence than his pro-Persian contemporaries, and they were only superficially pro-Persian as they were actually just anti-Justinian.