Two stories of fallacious prostration bookend the encounters between the Greek and Persian worlds at either end of antiquity. In the fourth century BCE, the Theban Ismenias faked a bow…
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Jake Nabel is an Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a historian of ancient Rome, pre-Islamic Iran, and the points of contact…
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About the Speaker Nabel’s research centers on interstate affairs between the early Principate and the Parthian empire, Rome’s imperial peer on the Iranian plateau, but he also maintain active interests…
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About the Speaker Nabel’s research centers on interstate affairs between the early Principate and the Parthian empire, Rome’s imperial peer on the Iranian plateau, but he also maintain active interests…
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