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Julius Caesar's planned invasion of the Parthian Empire

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The assassination occurred on 15 March 44 BC on the day that the senate was to debate granting Caesar the title of king for the war with Parthia. However, some of the aspects of Caesar's planned kingship may have been invented after the assassination to justify the act. The relationship between the
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secured. It has also been proposed that Caesar knew of the threats against him and felt that leaving Rome and being in the company of a loyal army would be safer both personally and politically. Caesar may have also wished to heal the rift from the civil war or to distract from it by reminding the
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states that Caesar wished to proceed cautiously and would not fully engage the Parthian army unless he had determined their full strength. Although he implies that Caesar's goal was an expansion of the empire, not just its stabilization, Plutarch describes a bolder campaign by writing that once
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In order to support a royal title for Caesar, a rumour was spread before the planned invasion. It alleged that it had been prophesied that only a Roman king could defeat Parthia. As Caesar's greatest internal opposition came from those that believed he wanted royal power, that strengthened the
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tried to lobby Caesar to postpone the Parthian invasion and to solve domestic problems instead. Following a similar line of thought in June that year, Caesar temporarily wavered in his intention to leave with the expedition. However, Caesar finally decided to leave Rome and to join the army in
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A number of motivations have been proposed to explain his decision to continue his military career. After a victorious campaign he would have, as Plutarch wrote, "completed this circuit of his empire, which would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean" and returned home with his
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successfully vied for control of the legions from the planned invasion, which were still stationed in Macedonia, and he temporarily took control of that province to do so. From 40 to 33 BC, Rome and particularly Antony would wage an unsuccessful
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have also been used to lend support for that hypothesis. Malitz acknowledges that the Scythia and Germania plans appear to be unrealistic but believes that they were credible with the geographic knowledge of the time.
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There is evidence that Caesar had begun practical preparation for the campaign some time before late 45 BC. By 44 BC Caesar had begun a mass mobilization, sixteen
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It has also been proposed that Caesar's opposition would be fearful of him returning victorious from his campaign since he would be more popular than ever.
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The public excuse for the expedition was that less than ten years earlier, in 53 BC, an invasion of the Parthian Empire had been attempted by Roman Consul
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According to Dio, the Roman people's desire for that revenge led to Caesar being given sole command of the Parthian campaign by a unanimous vote.
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was written with the intention of finding correlations between the lives of famous Romans and Greeks; for example, Caesar was paired with
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Campbell, Brian (2002). Rich, John; Rich, John; Shipley, Graham (eds.). "War and diplomacy: Rome and Parthia, 31 BC–AD 235".
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also interprets Plutarch as trying to use Caesar's future plans as a case study in the error of unbridled ambition.
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Buszard, Bradley (2008). "Caesar's Ambition: A Combined Reading of Plutarch's Alexander-Caesar and Pyrrhus-Marius".
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Parthia was aware of the political divide in Rome and that Caesar's victory in the civil war could lead to invasion.
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in the civil war, had murdered Caesar's cousin, Sextus Caesar, and defeated the new governor sent by Caesar.
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The expedition was planned to take three years. It was to begin with a punitive attack on Dacia under King
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The Romano-Parthian Cold War: Julio-ClaudianForeign Policy in the First Century CE and Tacitus'Annales
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However, the invasion was cancelled with the murder of Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC. In 36 BC,
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In Dacia, Burebista died the same year as Caesar, which led to the dissolution of his kingdom.
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minted by Carisius in 46 BC (top) and Valerius Acisculus in 45 BC (bottom). The use of
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for which Anienus had been placed in charge, was to occur during the campaign.
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also claims that once Parthia had been subdued, the army was to continue to
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and finally back to Rome. Those grander plans are found only in Plutarch's
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Eventual cancellation and diversion of Roman forces among civil war parties
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Some academics have theorised that Caesar's pairing with Alexander and
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that Dacia, not Parthia, was going to be the expedition's main target.
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in 53 BC, when the Parthians soundly defeated an invading army led by
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also mentions an intention to continue to India after Parthia.
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to train, along with a large sum of gold for the expedition.
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in 45 BC was still politically divided after the civil war,
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planned Parthian war and his death, if any, is unknown.
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Parthia had been subdued, the army would move through the
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populace of Rome of the threat of a neighbouring empire.
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Military campaign that Gaius Julius Caesar never executed
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Index

Caesar's planned invasion of the Parthian Empire
Roman-Parthian Wars

Dacia
Parthia
Plutarch
Scythia
Caesar's
Dacia
Middle East
Central Asia
Roman Republic
Julius Caesar
Burebista
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Roman–Parthian Wars
Carrhae
Caesar's planned invasion
Pompeian–Parthian invasion
Cilician Gates
Amanus Pass
Mt Gindarus
Mark Antony's campaign
Armenian War of 58–63
Trajan's Parthian campaign
Lucius Verus' campaigns

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