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Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy?

The Ancients · Dr Tristan Hughes · 58m
historian and broadcaster; PhD Oxford
AncientTactics & BattlesStrategy & Grand Strategy
Selection · Edition 2026-08-14

Eve MacDonald joins Tristan Hughes to cover Shapur I's campaigns against Rome — the defeat and capture of Emperor Valerian, the forging of Sasanian military power, and why Rome's eastern frontier was so persistently vulnerable. Properly military in framing, with the strategic dynamics of the Roman-Sasanian rivalry front and centre.

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