A Book Launch and Conversation with Simon Elliott. Held in the Old Library of All Souls College, Oxford on 16th November 2023. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Very impressed by him laying out what we know and don't know about this topic at the beginning. I feel that far too often historians who write for a general audience don't do that because they think it makes themselves sound less credible or something. I honestly think it makes you sound a lot more credible and wish more people in more fields would do this!
No they were not. Turkic speaking people started populating the Northwestern parts of Iranian plateau, Eastern Anatolia and Caucasus somewhere around 12 century AD.
@@ethdow6817, does your answer assume that Azeris do not descend from pre-Turkic people who lived in those areas before the arrival of the Turks? Are you assuming that Turks replaced people in those areas, as opposed to people adopting Turkic languages?
Parthians were Iranians, they just were not Persians, but definitely they were Iranians. I've never heard anyone contest that! Must have been a slip or something.
His *books* (plural), eh? Seeing as only one or maybe two even deal with the Roman-Parthian/Persian conflict, what would make those Iranists qualified to find all his books a joke? Methinks, the set of "iranists finding his books a joke" has one element: you. Who, I will go out on a limb, is not even an Iranist. Not even going to ask what a "romaboo" is, nor do I care.
I assume by "romaboo" you mean "pro-Rome" , in which case stop your paranoid whining and actually listen to what he says rather than what you assume he is saying.
@@Unknown-jt1jo Or, sadly, an actual Iranian who, depressed about the current state of their country, desperately longs for the days when "Persia Rule The World (tm)". You can possibly tell at which scenes in "300" they cheered or booed. 😆
