I also hope they spur readers on to explore the history of Parthia for themselves and to discover more about a fascinating people. Sections on social justice and on issues of sustainability and development look at the history and roots of the current environmental crisis at the broader. I do not pretend to be an expert on the topic, but I hope my novels have shed light on an empire that lasted nearly 500 years but is almost unknown in the West. ‘The Parthian’ was born, as was my interest in the Parthian Empire, which would lead to the Parthian Chronicles series of novels and to date over 10 years of research into the Parthian Empire. This led me to devise a story around a Parthian prince who is captured by the Romans and ends up fighting in the slave army. Knowing there were quite a few fiction accounts of the slave leader, I wanted to find a new perspective. I first became interested in the Thracian after seeing the Stanley Kubrick film Spartacus as a boy, my interest growing over the years. In this book, Richard Foltz traces the spread of Iranian culture among diverse populations ranging from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and along the Silk Roads as far as China, from prehistoric times up to the present day. My interest in Parthia began with a desire to write a novel about the Spartacus slave rebellion. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century, Richard C.
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