CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Brindisi, Tyrant
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Since after the civil war rome lost a lot of hold in the east. After the battle of philipy, antony stayed in the east, to fix everything in the east. Romans never forgot the loss of crassus was overshadowed by the civil war. Caesar was setting out when he was assassinated then another civil war. But the parthians beat him to the punch, attacking syria and asia minor; enlisting the help of a. Roman general (in asia), an ally of brutus and cassius, who took his army with him to parthia. He was conquering roman land with his roman army in the name of parthia. Because antony had other things to deal with, he told one of his generals to counter this offensive; driving them out of asia and syria. The roman general was captured and executed in 39 b. c. The boundaries were re-established, but roman honour was sullied.
