Arsacids, Romans, and local elites : cross-cultural interactions of the Parthian Empire / edited by Jason M. Schlude and Benjamin B. Rubin.

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For almost 500 years (247 BCE-224 CE), the Arsacid kings of Parthia ruled over a vast multi-cultural empire, which encompassed much of central Asia and the Near East. The inhabitants of this empire included a complex patchwork of Hellenized Greek-speaking elites, Iranian nobility, and semi-nomadic Asian tribesman, all of whom had their own competing cultural and economic interests. This collection of new papers examines the cross-cultural interactions among the Arsacids, Romans, and local elites from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

Mithradates I and the Parthian archer / Jeffrey D. Lerner -- The Seleucids imprisoned: Arsacid-Roman hostage submission and its Hellenistic precedents / Jake Nabel -- Marcus Antonius' Median War and the dynastic politics of the Near East / Kenneth R. Jones -- Finding common ground: Roman-Parthian embassies in the Julio-Claudian period / Jason M. Schlude and Benjamin B. Rubin -- Herod the Great: a Near Eastern case study in Roman-Parthian politics / Jason M. Schlude and J. Andrew Overman -- Osrhoene and Mesopotamia between Rome and Arsacid Parthia / Peter Edwell -- Beyond Rome/Parthia: intersections of local and imperial traditions in the visual record of Hatra / Björn Anderson.

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