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The Arsacid s of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations

Discu ssant: Jonathan Brockopp, Professor of History, Religious Studies, and P hilosophy

At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperi al powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parth ia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family—the ruling dy nasty of Parthia—who were sent to live at the Roman court. Although Roma n authors called these figures “hostages” and scholars have studied them as such, Nabel draws on Iranian and Armenian sources to argue that the Parthians would have seen them as the emperor’s foster-children. These d ivergent perspectives allowed each empire to perceive itself as superior to the other, since the two sides interpreted the exchange of royal chi ldren through conflicting cultural frameworks. Moving beyond the paradig m of great power rivalry, The Arsacids of Rome advances a new vision of interstate relations with misunderstanding at its center.

Jake Nab el is the Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies and an Ass istant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsy lvania State University. He is a historian of ancient Rome, pre-Islamic Iran, and the points of contact between the two.

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