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The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations Volume 2

The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations Volume 2

Nabel, Jake

Paperback

Series: Iran and the Ancient World

Ancient RomeGeneral Political ScienceIran History

ISBN10: 0520413067
ISBN13: 9780520413061
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 283
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family--the ruling dynasty of Parthia--who were sent to live at the Roman court. Although Roman 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 divergent perspectives allowed each empire to perceive itself as superior to the other, since the two sides interpreted the exchange of royal children through conflicting cultural frameworks. Moving beyond the paradigm of great powers in conflict, The Arsacids of Rome advances a new vision of interstate relations with misunderstanding at its center.

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