Nikolaus Overtoom’s second monograph, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome, will be published Thursday Dec. 11th by Bloomsbury Publishing. It provides a comprehensive study to evaluate and understand the military capabilities and accomplishments of the greatest enemy of the Seleucids and Romans, the Parthians. Overtoom draws on a wide variety of sources to reassess the militarism of the Parthians and origins and events of their first war with Rome. This book emphasizes source criticism of Greco-Roman writers to challenge traditional Rome-centric understandings of the Parthians and their military success by considering, as much as possible, the Parthians and their agency on their own terms.