#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

6922.559 - 6947.839 Gregory Aldrete

So this is a literal rags-to-riches story of a slave, someone who starts out a slave and becomes the queen of an empire almost as large and powerful as Rome. Okay? But yet, how often do we hear about Musa? And when you look in traditional histories of Roman-Parthian relations, and I went and looked at this because I was just writing this lecture, most of those histories didn't even mention her.