Are they're listeners, a quick announcement before the new podcast commences.

Rianna Evans and I are now fundraising for Series 2 of the Caesars Gallic War podcast,

in which we make our way through Caesar's most famous campaign in intricate detail.

This is a supporter only podcast, so if you want to hear it,

why not check it out?

Go to kickstarter.com and search for Caesar's Gaelic War. Thanks. And welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr. Kalin Davenport. Senior lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University and Humboldt Research Fellow at Goth University, Frankfurt.

This is episode CX I. I. I. I. I.

Here comes the sun. Do do do do do.

McCrinus has made a treaty with the Parthians,

and at long last the two mighty empires are at peace.

Who's to say if it will last,

but at this point in time all that matters is that he can finally get

down to the business of ruling the empire. But before he can rest his laurels, to the east, the sun is rising here's Caitlin

Davenport. The Severin family returns to Amessa where

McCrinus has sent them this is an inland city in Syria on the Orontes River south of Antioch.

This is where Septimius Severus had met his future wife Julia Domna and McRina sent the other relatives back there.

So I can take everyone through the different names.

Yeah, give this a bit of a family tree.

Oh, I hope everyone's got their pen and pencil. through the different names. Yeah, give this a bit of a family tree.

Oh, everyone's got their pen and pencil.

Ready to go.

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