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Nero's Persian Dream: The Unfinished Eastern Campaign
In this milestone episode, Lucas and Luna explore Nero's last grand ambition: a full-scale invasion of the Caspian Gates and the Caucasus, a plan that died with him in 68 AD. They trace the roots of this eastern obsession back to the emperor's Parthian settlement of 66 AD, when Tiridates knelt in Rome and Nero closed the doors of the Temple of Janus. But behind the pomp, Nero was quietly mustering legions for a campaign that would have redrawn the map of the ancient world. Drawing on Suetonius, Pliny the Elder, and the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, they piece together the…
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