Johannes Haubold. “History and Historiography in the Early Parthian Diaries”

The author provides a summary of the problematic and complex events registered by the diaries during the troubled period between the end of the Seleucid rule and the coming of the Parthians. Aim of the author is to show how historical references in the diaries were not a mere list of events, but a series of connected elements organised to form a historical narration. What is surprising it is the almost total absence of Parthian Studies, made more disappointing by the claimed effort of "contex..