The two eyes of the Earth: book review

Matthew Canepa's 2009 book "The two eyes of the Earth: art and ritual of kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran" is reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Dr. Peter Edwell of Macquarie University, Sydney.

The book is based on the author's PhD thesis at the University of Chicago. Professor Canepa is currently  at the Department of Art History at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Dr. Peter Edwell is based in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney

SOAS Library has a copy of this book at NT935 / 741958

Sasanian Empire: website and open-access e-journals

Sasanika is hosted by the University of California at Irvine. The website features resources on the geography, history and archaeology of the Sasanian Persian Empire

The website also gives open-access to:

e-Sasanika (a collection of open-access academic papers) 

Name-ye Iran Bastan (International journal of ancient Iranian studies) : the project to make all content for this title is a work in progress and only 2001 is currently available. The journal is in Persian and English

The site also aims to give access to the Persian language title Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History, which looks at the Iranian world prior to the coming of Islam. Only Vol.5 (2009) is available at present.