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16 Apr 2019
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Roman syria and the near east, british museum press, london, pp. 32-78. Pompeys settlement of 64-63 bc did not result in the recognition of an agreed boundary between what was roman and non roman. Yet a boundary of sorts was clearly present, dividing. Syria and mesopotamia were now politically separated between one empire ruled by latin speaking italian elites and another controlled by a partisan speaking aristocratcy. The euphrates became both a symbolic and a very real political boundary. The euphrates was a temporary compromise between two contenders, rome ad the partians, both perhaps aiming at a world empire. A geographical pre condition for a superpower was to acquire control of the fertile crescent together with iran and the eastern mediterranean. The parthian and sasanian states were the most serious rivals to roman imperialism winter the. The sassanians for a brief period turned the tables and took the emperor valerian captive.
