Note: if you would like to read a piece that is not posted here, please write me at jnabel@outlook.com for an offprint.
In print
2026. “Fake Prostration in Late Antique Literature and the Ambiguities of Domination.” Studies in Late Antiquity 10 (3), 265–93.
2025. The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations. Iran and the Ancient World 2. Oakland: University of California Press.
The digital version of the book is available open access through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Click the image below to download.
2025. “The Verb empoliteuō and Greek Citizenship under Arsacid Rule.” Classical Journal 120 (3), 249–76.
2024. “Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy.” In John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani (eds), Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires, 400–34. Leiden: Brill.
2022. “The Parthian Empire.” In Jeffrey Spier, Tim Potts, and Sara E. Cole (eds), Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, 157–64. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust.
2022. “Hydration, Ancient Persian-Style.” In Touraj Daryaee and Shervin Farridnejad (eds), Food for Gods, Food for Mortals: Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, 161–8. Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies.
2020. “The Arsacids of Rome and Parthia’s ‘Iranian Revival’ in the First Century CE.” In Kai Ruffing, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink, and Robert Rollinger (eds), Societies at War: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kassel September 26-28 2016 and Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kiel November 11-15 2014, 475–94. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
2020. “Exemplary History and Arsacid Genealogy in Tacitus, Annals 6.31.” Dabir 7, 175–91.
2019. “Tiridates in the Forum, Peroz on his Knees: Religion and Reputation in Ancient Iranian Diplomacy.” Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia 10, 214–36.
2019. “Arsacid Beverages in Lucan.” Classical Quarterly 69 (2), 776–82.
2019. “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome.” Classical Philology 114 (4), 604–25.
2019. “Remembering Intervention: Parthia in Rome’s Civil Wars.” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 68 (3), 327–52.
2018. “Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History.” In K. Moore (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, 197–232. Leiden: Brill.
2017. “The Seleucids Imprisoned: Arsacid-Roman Hostage Submission and its Hellenistic Precedents.” In J. Schlude and B. Rubin (eds), Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire, 25–50. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
2015. “Horace and the Tiridates Episode.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 158 (3/4), 304–25.
2015. “Venus’ Boots and the Shadow of Caesar in Book 1 of Virgil’s Aeneid.” Classical Quarterly 65 (2), 689–92.
Online
2017. The Parthian Empire: An Overview.
An introduction to Parthian history for Parthian Sources Online.
2015–present. Parthian Sources Online (parthiansources.com)
A digital collection of texts from the Parthian empire in Parthian, Greek, and Latin.
