The Red Wedding, Roman Style.

"It's a wonderful example of the two sides meeting. Caracala rode into parthian territory, and everywhere there were sacrifices made to him," he says. "And then artabanus comes out of the city, and herodian says he greeted him as the bridegroom of his daughter and his own son in law." And so we then have this wonderful feast when people from the parthian side all want and see caracala, and theyre all gathering around him. This was the point at which acaracala gave the signal to order his army to set upon the barbarians and kill them,. They were thunderstruck at what happened, and wounded