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Plutarch to do so. Florus alleged that the blazing heat of Armenia and the snowfall of Cappadocia inflicted lethal attrition on the retreating Romans, while Plutarch and Dio wrote that the snow and ice of Armenia were killing Antony's soldiers. Dio and especially Orosius asserted that many Romans deserted the army during the withdrawal, while Plutarch emphasised that the troops remained loyal to Antony. Plutarch indicates explicitly and implicitly that he based his account on multiple, sometimes conflicting sources, leading to duplications of the same events (such as the Romans twice fraternising with Parthians, being misled along a "safe" passage but attacked by Parthians anyway), and contradicting himself on whether the Armenian king's withdrawal of the cavalry, or Antony's decision to campaign during the winter season, was to blame for the expedition's failure.
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In Armenia, Antony hid his resentment of the Armenian king and his intentions to punish him in the future, as he needed support to continue his journey through Armenia back to the Roman soil in Syria. Although safe from Parthian attacks after arriving in Armenia, additional Roman soldiers died on the
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Some Roman sources blame the Armenian king for the heavy defeat, but others do not; Strabo and Plutach disagree sharply on the issue. Plutach even contradicts himself on whether the Armenian king's withdrawal of the cavalry, or Antony's decision to campaign during the winter season, was to blame for
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The retreat of the Armenian king was later interpreted as treason in Antony's camp. However, a pro-Antony bias is present in the narrations of the campaign by Strabo and Plutarch, whose primary source was a written report by Antony's friend, Quintus Dellius, who had masked Antony's poor management
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tactic once or multiple times to ward off the Parthians; and whether the Armenian king was held responsible for the campaign's failure or not. Florus claims that at some point Antony walked into a Parthian trap and lost two legions, which no other source mentions, although one would expect Dio or
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Benjamin Kelly (2008) noted that apart from agreeing on a few basic facts, the primary sources on Antony's 36 Atropatene campaign contradict each other on virtually everything. Discrepancies range from troop strength and losses; to which city was targeted by Antony's siege; to whether almost all
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Again with Egyptian money, citing abandonment of the Romans in 36 after initially supporting them, Antony invaded Armenia in 34, capturing king Artavasdes and taking control of Armenia for a time. On his return to Egypt, the equivalent of a
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march to the Mediterranean due to inclement weather. The arduous journey through the mountains of Armenia in winter greatly reduced the strength of Antony's army. Around 32,000 men of his army were lost in total.
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was celebrated in the streets of Alexandria. At the end of the celebration, the whole city was summoned to hear a very important political statement, later known as the
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Antony then began an exhausting retreat to Armenia along a mountainous road and was ceaselessly harassed by the Parthian cavalry. His forces reached the border of
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in Statianus' supply forces were killed, or that many more were captured; to whether Antony's retreating infantry used the
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Primary sources for the 36 Atropatene campaign of Antony include sections, fragments or passing mentions in
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was unable to follow up the victory because of a civil war from 32 BC to 25 BC. It began by a rebellion of
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Antony still proceeded to besiege the fortified Atropatenian capital Phraata/Praaspa (identified as either
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but died before he could implement it. In 40 BC, the Parthians were joined by Pompeian forces and briefly
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and Gaius Octavianus (later known as Augustus). Soon, with the triumvirs preoccupied with the revolt of
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As the Parthians were concentrated on the Euphrates, Antony chose the route via Armenia towards
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was captured, but King Artavasdes II and his cavalry had hastily retreated and did not engage.
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the expedition's failure. Modern sources note Antony's poor management and planning.
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was installed in his place. Antigonus was the only remaining son of the former King
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in 300 wagons (a train ~5 miles (8.0 km) long) and an 80 foot (24 m) long
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The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
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after 27 days. A survey of the troops suggested 24,000 men were lost.
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that was probably supported by aristocratic circles and the Romans.
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36 BC, Antony went on to attack the Parthian Empire. Having 16
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in 44 BC to avenge the earlier defeat of a Roman army led by
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Dellius, the Parthian Campaign, and the Image of Mark Antony
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Late into the campaigning season of 36, Antony attacked
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6,000 Armenian armored cavalry, 7,000 Armenian infantry
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Index

Antony's Parthian War
Roman–Parthian Wars

Atropatene
Status quo ante bellum
Roman Republic
Armenia
Galatia
Cappadocia
Pontus
Herodian Kingdom of Judea
Parthian Empire
Atropatene
Hasmonean Kingdom
Mark Antony
Artavasdes II of Armenia

Polemon I of Pontus
Surrendered
Herod the Great
Phraates IV
Artavasdes I of Atropatene
Monaeses
legions
siege engines
auxiliaries
cataphracts
horse archers
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