Jake Nabel

I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world. You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did! ucpress.edu/books/the-arsa…

something the current literature on ancient freedom, with its overriding focus on Greece and Rome, either explicitly denies or tells us not to expect.

I hope Iranian colleagues will see the talk not as a chauvinistic lecture on the topic, but as an attempt to demonstrate the high valuation of freedom in Iran's ancient past —

Welp, seems like as bad a time as any to mention that I'm giving a talk on the concept of freedom in ancient Iran at Minnesota on Wed, Apr 1, from 3:30—5pm (Central). It will be Zoomed as well: cla.umn.edu/premodern/news…

Huge thanks to Michael Motia for the chance to talk about my book on the New Books in Late Antiquity podcast! It was a really fun conversation newbooksnetwork.com/the-arsacids-o…

Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh (1937-2026)

A recent article on citizenship regimes in the Greek poleis of the Parthian empire academia.edu/164821775/The_…

@Brown_Fravis I'll allow it

@JakeNabel "Say Cheese or Die" is the only ultimatum I recognize

Not an ultimatum

What an impressive young historian!

A beautifully preserved Palmyrene Aramaic inscription on a wooden board which was left standing upright in a cave on the island of Socotra.

درس گفتارهای تاریخ ایران باستان در دوازده جلسه اگر فقط دوست دارید که درباره تاریخ ایران گوش دهید 3danet.ir/persian-histor…

Free ebook: "Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran" see: biblioiranica.info/man-landscape-…

Previous evidence of yersinia pestis in late antique samples only came from relatively remote places in central Europe, very far from Constantinople. This, from Kyle Harper in 2017 (The Fate of Rome, p. 230), has aged well

New aDNA evidence of yersinia pestis (plague, Black Death) in skeletal samples from a late antique mass grave in Jerash, Jordan, much closer to the presumed epicenter of the Justinianic plague than previous samples usf.edu/health/news/20…

@kiyomizunomiya Thank you and that sounds awesome!

@JakeNabel Congratulations! The topic of Parthian royalty at the Roman imperial court sounds utterly fascinating. When I previously crafted alternate history stories, I created a setting featuring an Eastern Roman Empire established by the Arsacids😄

I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world. You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did! ucpress.edu/books/the-arsa…

Always happy to have a Carthage talk around here! Zoom registration link if you're not in town: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

@eduardo_garcmol Overqualified for his job, rigorous standards, fiercely devoted to his students, gets fired anyway. Sounds about right

English teacher this, gym teacher that. Classics already has its icon.

@SabriBokht برای توضیحتون خیلی ممنونم! افتخار و احترام به فردوسی همیشه

یک استندآپ کمدین زن که از طریق یک برنامهٔ استعدادیابی تلویزیون حکومت اسلامی مشهور شده و پیش از این منکر امکان اسقاط عامدانهٔ هواپیمای اوکراینی شده بود و پیشتر نیز به عمر خیام فحاشی کرده، شوخی‌های بی‌مزه –البته با در نظر گرفتن سلیقهٔ سخت‌بخند ما ایرانی‌ها– و سخیف جنسی با متن شاهنامه کرده است. مثلاً فردوسی داشته مار را توصیف می‌کرده اما او جوری شعر را خوانده که ابتدا تصور شود که آنچه که خوانده می‌شود به‌قول ایرج میرزا «خدا مرگم دهد اینکه وصف کیر است!» یا جای دیگر فردوسی را متهم کرده که همه‌چیز را در ابتدای داستان Spoil می‌کند و قادر به ایجاد تعلیق در فضای داستان نیست و ضمن نقدش به او فحاشی هم کرده و بی‌همه‌چیزش خوانده. طبیعتاً با توجه به پیوندهایش با نظام ایران‌ستیز حاکم و سوابق تاریکش در پخش پروپاگاندا به‌نفع حکومت مورد حملهٔ مردم در فضای آنلاین قرار گرفته.

منشأ این جنجال درباره شاهنامه چیست؟