The Rise and Fall of Crassus
The Ancients
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Krasas' Plan to Win Victories in the Further East
Krasas thought that he could win victories in the further east because Parthia was a sprawling empire nomadic place with lots of different capital cities. I don't think Krasas really knew much about the place. There were no Parthians in Rome and they're like the world Gauls and Greeks and Germans. It's probably difficult to meet any Parthians. And funnily, Krasas was looking at a very different game and that was where he started to come unstuck. He met what you might call a sort of Zelensky of the desert, you know, a kind of young, charismatic guy called Sirena who commanded a completely different kind of army
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