Jason M. Schlude is Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. A former Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute and Villa, he is a specialist on the Roman Near East; has published on Roman–Parthian relations in journals including Latomus, Athenaeum, and Anabasis; and is co-editor of Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire (2017).