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Exit Gordianus, but how? Shapur’s trilingual inscription revisited
This article aims at re-evaluating the Classical (Eutropius, Historia Augusta, Ammianus),
Byzantine (Orosius, Zosimus, Zonaras) and Iranian (the trilingual Kaʿba-ye Zardošt inscription) sources on the
death of the Roman emperor Gordian III during his campaign against the Sasanid king Shapur I in AD 244. In the
current scholarly debate, two groups of scholars can be distinguished: the first group, following the Classical and
Byzantine sources, argues that Gordian III was killed by his own peers, attributing a vicious role to his imperial
successor Philip the Arab. Basing themselves on the Iranian sources, the second group believes that Shapur I
claimed to have killed Gordian III in a military confrontation. The study will use historical and linguistic arguments,
focussing on the trilingual Kaʿba-ye Zardošt inscription, to come to a new...
Show moreThis article aims at re-evaluating the Classical (Eutropius, Historia Augusta, Ammianus),
Byzantine (Orosius, Zosimus, Zonaras) and Iranian (the trilingual Kaʿba-ye Zardošt inscription) sources on the
death of the Roman emperor Gordian III during his campaign against the Sasanid king Shapur I in AD 244. In the
current scholarly debate, two groups of scholars can be distinguished: the first group, following the Classical and
Byzantine sources, argues that Gordian III was killed by his own peers, attributing a vicious role to his imperial
successor Philip the Arab. Basing themselves on the Iranian sources, the second group believes that Shapur I
claimed to have killed Gordian III in a military confrontation. The study will use historical and linguistic arguments,
focussing on the trilingual Kaʿba-ye Zardošt inscription, to come to a new historical interpretation about the end
of the life of Gordian III.
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- Claes, L.M.G.F.E.; Tavernier, J.
- Date
- 2018-05-01
- Volume
- 95