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Elephants in Late Antique Iran: Symbols of Kingship and Warfare
May 25, 2012 @ 12:00 am
The Persians used elephants in their military from the Achaemenid to the Safavid period. The talk discusses the importance of elephants forSasanian royal ideology as a symbol of kingship, and their use against the Romans in Late Antiquity.
Touraj Daryaee is Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California, Irvine.
This event is sponsored by the the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 28.iii.2012