Parthians, Romans, and Early Sasanians: Reflections on a Change of Power and Its Antique and Modern Evaluation

Josef Wiesehöfer, born in 1951 in Wickede/Ruhr (Westphalia), retired Full Professor of Ancient History, Institute of Classics, Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel (1989–2016). He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He specializes in the study of Pre‐Islamic Iran, the connections between the cultures of the Mediterranean and those of the ancient Near East and Central Asia as well as the history of scholarship. He is the author of Ancient Persia (Tauris 2001) and main editor of the series Oriens et Occidens.