Historian of ancient Rome and pre-Islamic Iran at Penn State
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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-arsaci…
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Art of the Ancient Americas out today!! 🤓🎉
amazon.com/dp/0500205035/
Also available via @bookshop_org_UK
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Now available for pre-order! 📚
Arts of the Ancient Americas, published by @thamesandhudson, available in September!
amazon.com/dp/0500205035/
ALT Cover of the book Arts of the Ancient Americas by James A. Doyle, to be published by Thames & Hudson in their World of Art series in September, 2026.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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لینک تماشای پنل صبح یکم اکتبر از کنفرانس مادها. سخنرانی من در انتهای ویدئو است:
The conference on Medes is now available to watch on YouTube. Here is the link to our panel. My presentation is the last one, in case anyone was looking for it:
youtube.com/watch?v=e39XyGNS…
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Güzel haber! Sevgili danışmanım Doç. Dr. İlhami Tekin Cinemre'nin editörlüğünde hazırlanan "POWER, SPACE and SANCTITY Feudal Structures in Late Antique Armenia and the Caucasus" isimli kitap yayımlandı. Ben de "Spatial Manifestations of Aristocracy and Power in the Region of Gogarene/Gugarkʿ" isimli bölümle katkıda bulundum. LAFOA (la-foa.com) isimli projemizin bir çıktısı olan bu kitaba alanının uzmanı olan çok kıymetli akademisyenler katkı sundu. Katkı veren tüm yazarlara, önsöz yazma nezaketinde bulunan Giusto Traina'ya ve @selengeyayinevi'ne ve Murat Çaylı @_unchevalier hocama çok teşekkür ederiz.
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"Rethinking Cyrus at the Median Court: The Royal Hostage Tradition Revisited", a conference talk in Padua on 1 October, at the conference "The Medes: 25 Years Afterwards." You can also see the programme here:
academia.edu/176078588/Rethi…
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We have hornswoggled James Romm into giving the 28th Annual Roberts Lectures at Dickinson, October 23-24, 2026. It will be a stimulating weekend, a twisted mashup of philosophy and tyranny. Can't wait!
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We are delighted to debut our edition of Selections from Pliny's Letters, edited by Ashley Roman Francese, with contributions from some twenty-five high school and college students. dcc.dickinson.edu/pliny-lett… 1/3
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Jupiter Day 木曜日 (Thursday). 火羅圖 (京都敎王護國寺藏本). At the bottom left in Chinese we see 溫沒斯, a transcription of Sogdian wrmzt, from Mid. Persian Ohrmazd (Ahura Mazda). In Sasanian Iran, they associated the planets with local gods. The Sogdians adopted this. It got translated into Chinese, but the imagery was localized and the loanwords became nebulous terms traced back to the Western Regions. The Japanese then brought over the iconography.
dzkimgs.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SATi…
I have an article in the new issue of Studies in Late Antiquity. It is about petitioners in ancient literature who try to pull a fast one on a king. Instead of bowing to him, they perform a fake bow by, for example, discretely dropping a ring and stooping to pick it up.
Have they in fact cheated the king out of real submission? I answer by way of Lisa Wedeen's book about how autocratic regimes use empty spectacles to cement their power.
Open access!
online.ucpress.edu/SLA/artic…
Looking forward to speaking on the place of freedom in the political thought of late antique Iran at UT Austin later this month 🙏
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✍️ Saeede Amirpoor Saeed
The Third Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents & Sealings, September 4-5, 2026.
Please click the following link to view the full description of the news:
ancientirannews.com/en/the-t…
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The Sophene Bible, a new critical edition of the Classical Armenian Bible with full critical apparatus, now being published online in serial form, book by book, ahead of a single print edition. Open Access.
sophenebooks.com/blogs/dig-d…
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ICYMI: We now post full length videos of our Wednesday interviews!
Check out the latest with @JakeNabel
youtu.be/nZTW3lNG1Zs?si=2nos…
Thank you very much for having me on, Danny and Derek 🙏🙏
Rome and Ancient Iran w/ @JakeNabel
Historian Jake Nabel is on the show to talk about the Roman-Parthian dynamic in antiquity.
Link in the replies.
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Takuji Abe. 2018. "Proskynēsis: From a Persian Court Protocol to a Greek Religious Practice." ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr… A fragmentary stone relief from Dascylium, which is dated to the fifth century, also shows two male figures wearing headgear, ... xitter.cf/JakeNabel/status/18014…
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New Cambridge Element, Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia, by Rachel Mairs, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
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#cambridgeelements #archaeology
