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Historical person
died 2 BCE
Phraates IV secured the Parthian throne through dynastic violence and ruled during renewed confrontation with Rome. His forces and allies resisted Mark Antony’s invasion in 36 BCE, exploiting Roman supply difficulties and destroying the siege train before Antony’s costly retreat from Media Atropatene.
In Caesar’s Nemesis, Phraates represents the organised imperial opposition that exposes the limits of Antony’s eastern ambitions. The failed campaign damages Antony’s prestige and contributes to the political vulnerability later used by Octavian.
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The Mark Antony series presents a biographical saga of the Roman commander from the Catilinarian crisis to his defeat by Octavian. Antony’s youth is shaped by the execution of his stepfather, service under Aulus Gabinius in Judaea and Egypt, and the campaigns in Gaul that bind him to…
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