SOME COMMENTS ON THE "RIDERS" BY V. A. DMITRIEV
In his famous book “'Riders in shining armor': Military Sasanian Iran and the history of the Roman-Persian Wars" (St. Petersburg, 2008) Russian military historian V. A. Dmitriev presents valuable analysis on the Sassanid army, its structure, the order of acquisition, manners of fighting and other similar questions. At the same time, the book raises some questions that its roots go back primarily to the source study of the problem, when such a valua-ble reservoir of sources for the study of the Sassanid military machine as Armenian and Georgian primary sources, almost brought to study the issue and Syrian sources have received only limited application. In this paper an attempt is made to draw his attention to these details, the natural purpose to make the work more refined in possible subsequent editions.