The Roman Empires had fought a series of wars with pre-Islamic Persian dynasties from 92 BC to the 7th century AD - when the Muslim conquest of Persia caused the downfall of the Sasanian Empire.

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

One of his books looks at the concept of Alexander as the “First European.” Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian Empire, he says — meaning that even from antiquity, it was ...