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Antony imitates Caesar's unfinished Parthian ambition to prove himself, but the mismatch between Roman infantry and Parthian/Persian cavalry leads to defeat and personal collapse.
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Antony imitates Caesar's unfinished Parthian ambition to prove himself, but the mismatch between Roman infantry and Parthian/Persian cavalry leads to defeat and personal collapse.
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Caesar's ambition included a cult of personality and world-conquest plans against Parthia and Germania, but Jiang still frames his deeper motive as making Rome great again.
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"Does that make sense? So, this explains his enemies. How about Mark Anthony? Okay. So, Mark Anthony had a different problem. Mark Anthony loved..."
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"And Roman generals failed to make inroads against Parthia. And in fact, Julius Caesar, he wanted to basically end his life by invading Parthia...."
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"...Roman Empire. His plan was to go fight a place called Parthia, which is the old Persian Empire, and then he wanted to go..."
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