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Nero's Parthian Chess: Tiridates, Armenia, and the Crown
In this episode, Lucas and Luna step back from Nero's Rome to look east, where the real power game played out. The Parthian Empire had Rome's number in Armenia for decades — until Nero sent his best general, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, to do something about it. What follows is a decade of siege, negotiation, and spectacle, ending with the Parthian prince Tiridates I traveling all the way to Rome to personally receive his crown from Nero. It was a propaganda triumph — but was it a real victory? Lucas traces the campaign from the fall of Artaxata to the crowning at the Parthian camp, and…
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