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Nero's Danube Dream: The Sarmatian Campaign That Never Was
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a little-known aspect of Nero's reign: his ambitious plan to launch a major military campaign against the Sarmatians and the Dacians along the Danube frontier. While history remembers Nero mostly for the Great Fire, the Domus Aurea, and his artistic pursuits, he seriously considered a northern expedition that would have rivaled Julius Caesar's conquests. Lucas explains the political and military context of the Danube frontier in the 60s AD, the role of the governor of Moesia, Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus, who actually fought Sarmatian…
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