Episode B41 – Samsigeramus

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Synopsis: Shortly after Hatra’s destruction, Shapur inherits the Persian Empire. Gordian’s invasion the following year ends in defeat and humiliation for Rome. “When at first we had become established in the Empire, Gordian Caesar raised in all of the Roman Empire a force from the Goth and German realms, and marched on Asoristan against the Empire of Iran and against us. On the border of Asoristan and Misik a great frontal battle occurred. Gordian Caesar was killed and the Roman force was destroyed.” – The Great Inscription of Shapur I, Naqsh-i-Rustam The Roman Near East c. 240AD https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Near_East_240_Region.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	B41, Samse Garimus.
0:37.0	Hatra had fallen. Just sit with that for a minute.
0:40.0	Hatra, the Unconquerable.
0:42.0	The city that had basically killed Optimus Trajan and dealt Septimius Severus a pair of defeats.
0:50.0	Picture European Christians in 1453 on the fall of Constantinople.
0:57.0	Shrink the scale and you'll find the parallel of Hatcher's fall to the emacines. After all, Hatred relied on the sun god Shamash, like
1:07.6	Emasa on Elagabal. And if the sun god withdrew its protection from one city, what confidence the other could long endure?
1:17.0	If Samse Garamus had such thoughts, it would be pretty hard to blame him. The past six years had been
1:25.1	brutal for Friends of Rome. First the murder of his distant cousin Severus
1:31.0	Alexander by one of his own soldiers on the Rhine, then insult to injury, the
1:37.8	elevation of that soldier, Maximus Thrax to Emperor.
1:43.4	As fate would have it, Samseigarum as his father Uranius had also died in 235.
1:50.4	So at least he'd been spared the full measure of Rome's debasement.
1:55.0	On Uranius' death,
1:57.0	10-year-old Samseigaramus inherited his role as Emmocene High Priest.
2:02.0	The youngest since his cousin Elegobulus.
2:07.0	Though Thrax had purged the Imperial Court of Alexander's Advisors, he'd never tried to snuff out his Syrian relations.
2:16.9	Which was mildly surprising, since one of the first attempts on Thrax's life was by a body of eastern archers loyal to Alexander.
2:28.1	But to be honest, Thrax was focused on the Rhine, and he had little time or interest in the Roman East.
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