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grbs-16134	Maksymiuk, Katarzyna	The Two Eyes of the Earth: The Problem of Respect in Sasanid-Roman Relations	2018	16	.pdf	application/pdf	5791	261	66	In the context of the diplo- matic protocol we should ask whether communication in both verbal and ritual modes was understood in the same way by Iranian kings and Roman emperors,3 for this affected the rela- tions of the two empires of Late Antiquity. Maksym ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58 (2018) 591–606 2018 Katarzyna Maksymiuk The Two Eyes of the Earth: The Problem of Respect in Sasanid-Roman Relations Katarzyna Maksymiuk ECAUSE of the specific nature of the written sources describing relations between Rome and Iran during the third to seventh centuries A.D., research on Near Eastern history of the era seems focused on the military conflicts and descriptions of warfare.1 But equally fascinating are the diplo- matic relations between the two empires, especially the protocol of receiving embassies which developed during the four cen- turies of mutual contacts.2 The main topic of this paper is: can 1 E. Kettenhofen, Die römisch-persischen Kriege des 3.	cache/grbs-16134.pdf	txt/grbs-16134.txt