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Anastiasius Between Persia And Mediterranean Essay, Research Paper

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Not Marcian tradition,

contrary doing as much as possible to keep traditional link with west.?

West kept peace with

Vandals? Odoacar gone in last year Zeno by Ostrogths under Theodric?

Anastasius recognised him as regent to Byzantium 0 peace and quiet in West?

credulous an optimistic see entire Med basin as unified under Byzantine

suzerainty.?

Balance in West

delicate? ephemeral and fickle Barbarian Kings who only just supported him?

we see attempt to disengage alliance.?

Hazardous game letting payments fall into arrears and fortifying places

like Daras and Theodosiopolis.?

Contravenes agreements with Kawad.?

Zeno declines

subsidies by 483 120 yr tenure of Nisibis had elapsed and return to Rome.? Deserves little credence as no mention in

Ammaniaus of 363 treaty.?

As Anastasius says?

wars are not trifling with the West and predecessor does not pay

subsidies..? Anasatasius and followers

dilemma: absorption into Persian Empire based in Fertile Crescent or

reconstruction of shattered Mediterranean Empire? only lead to long and costly

wars.