Cam Rea

This book is necessarily slender. Sadly, the area has been the seat of other entities, and suffers greatly from the lack of surviving inscriptions and written sources created by the states and peoples concerned. In the period before direct Roman contact, we learn about the "Parthians" or Aparni from works written about them by people who are trying to gain information from the groups living next to the Parthians. Into the bargain, the writers are usually victims of Parthian expansion, and not likely to see their brighter side. Cam Rea does his best with the material he has gathered, though there is a good deal of explanation by analogy as opposed to direct evidence. Since he promises the reader a second book on the later period, I look forward to finding it and getting more knowledge about later developments.… (més)