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Leonardo Gregoratti, « Jake Nabel. “Exemplary History and Arsacid Genealogy in Tacitus, Annals 6.31” », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.53288
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In this paper, Nabel deals with the famous passage of Tacitus’ Annals (6.31) where the Parthian Great King Artabanus II, in a supposed letter to Emperor Tiberius, claims the right of ruling all lands once controlled by both Cyrus and Alexander. In the past, scholars have considered this passage a hint of the political agenda of the Parthian kings in general and of Artabanus in particular. Nabel takes into account Roman historiographic parallels and in particular, a passage by Cicero where the...