SHAPUR II

born AD 309 died 379 byname Shapur The Great 10th king of the Sasanian Empire of Persia, who withstood Roman strength by astute military strategy and diplomacy and brought the empire to the zenith of its power. Additional reading The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens, trans. by C.D. Yonge (1902), is a detailed, often fascinating, account of Rome's wars against major enemies. Sir Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, vol. 1 (1915, 3rd ed. reprinted 1958), is a major work, although the facts are not always documented and parts are now outdated (contains an extensive bibliography).