Słowa kluczowe: Tabaristān, Pahlavi documents, economy, drachms, Narratio de rebus Persicis, De Gestis in Perside, Disputatio de Christo in Persia, anti-Mazdakite polemics, Aphroditianus, Kawād I, Xusraw I, Persia, heretic, Persian, magician, warlord, Mithraism, histrionic behaviours, prejudices, stereotypes, Late Antique Roman mentalities, Ammianus Marcellinus, Greater Armenia, Late Roman history, Latin literature, Mithras, Syria, tauroctony, oriental cults, Iranian religion, Tacitus, history of Parthia, Roman-Parthian relations, Plutarch, Persia/Persians, Second Sophistic, Aristides, Themistocles, Agesilaus, Lysander, Artaxerxes, Alexander the Great, Zoroastrianism, Magoi, Armenian Wars, Nero, Corbulo, Parthians, Vologases, Paetus, terror, Achaemenid Empire, Strabo, landmark, ancient geography, Peucestas, Eumenes, Hellenism, Ruler-cult, Hellenicity, intercultural changes, Herodotus, Great King, speeches, rhetoric, letters, Greek historiography, War, peace, heartland and periphery, religion, violence, demographic limitations, Greeks, Scythians, mutual relations