Bret Devereaux Twitterissä: "Ventidius is going to be the only Roman to triumph over the Parthians until Trajan more than a century later. Turns out the muleteer-consul really was a portent! It's pretty clear that Ventidius was an individual of exceptional ability. 28/34"

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Actually, Aulus Gellius tells us that people talked a lot of s*** about our boy Ventidius. Cicero, before he got ultra-murdered, called him a mule-driver (ahem, that's mule, *renter* - very different!)... 18/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

And when he was elected consul people posted the verses, "Augurs and Haruspices assemble!/a strange portent has flared up just now/for the guy who washed mules, is now made consul!" Turns out the ancients had s***posting too. 19/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Ventidius shakes it off, finishes his year as consul and then gets a series of provincial assignments (we're not super clear about them). Finally in 40, he's made the proconsular governor of Syria under Antony. 20/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Antony, while he has been musing a Parthian campaign, has left that frontier under-defended in the mean time and in 40, the Parthians, with some pro-Pompey dead-enders, invade. Antony is off partying with Cleopatra. The only man in their way? P. Ventidius Bassus. 21/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

The Roman governor of Asia, L. Munatius Plancus, runs off and the Parthian/Pompeian force moves in. Ventidius meets their army at the Cilician gates in 39 and wrecks it. Labienus, the dead-ender Pompeian, is killed. 22/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

The following year, the Parthians are thinking, "Well, that hurt a little, but surely we win round 2." NOPE. Battle of Cyrrhestica, 38 BC, Ventidius completely ruins a Parthian army, the Parthian crown prince Pacorus killed in the battle. Get wrecked, its BASSUS TIME. 23/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Now Ventidius here is clever - he knows that Antony wants all of the glory of a victorious Parthian campaign and that stealing that glory from Antony would be unwise. So instead he secures the frontier and then hands the army over to Antony for his big campaign. 24/xx

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Antony, being Antony, *promptly* f***s it up, advancing too far, failing to guard his supplies fully, running out of food, failing in a siege and losing most of his army. Even James Purefoy's smile couldn't save that disaster. 25/xx (continues)pic.twitter.com/psyy3U9lue

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Ventidius wasn't there to save that disaster because he was busy being back at Rome celebrating his triumph for having utterly ruined two Parthian armies and re-secured Rome's eastern frontier. He's the first Roman to triumph over the Parthians. 26/34

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

The previous guy having tried, Crassus, ended up very dead in 53 having over-extended, failed to guard his supply lines and lost all of his army. And of course as Ventidius is celebrating his triumph, Antony is busy doing his best Crassus impression, minus dying himself. 27/34

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 7. heinäk.

Ventidius is going to be the only Roman to triumph over the Parthians until Trajan more than a century later. Turns out the muleteer-consul really was a portent! It's pretty clear that Ventidius was an individual of exceptional ability. 28/34

14.17 - 7. heinäk. 2021