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Hello everyone. It's time to do another ancient warfare podcast,

and we're going to discuss volume three issue five entitled The Imperial Nemesis, Rome versus Parthia.

And joining me today are Murray Donne, Lindsay Powell and Michael Taylor.

Hi guys.

Hello.

Hello.

This issue will obviously discuss the turbulent history of the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire and dealt with it in a couple articles.

First, the introduction by Pavel Gristar, who explained something about the history of the Parthian Empire, of their social makeup, and explain

how different really the state was from Rome.

And then discussed a little bit the theater of war.

Rome and Parthia basically fought over just a very limited number of areas, buffer states

really.

And they came back to those two all the time.

It's definitely something we could discuss in a bit.

Then we had Joaquin Montero who discussed the sources for Trajan's Parthian War, which is compared to the Dacian Wars probably stays a bit in the shadows.

And one of the reasons is that we are just not very well served

with surviving literary sources. One of them is really fragments surviving of Cassius Dio's

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