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The Rise of the Parthian Empire
Platonists fled the intellectual environment of the Roman Empire. They went to Haran, which is a backwater in modern day Syria or North Iraq. The Parthian kings are like, we don't want to torture you. We want you to work for us. And the Sabians of Haran become their own planetary cult.