Quick summary of a story in Tacitus, Annales 6

[quislibet]

A tyrant is removed from Mesopotamia thanks to the intervention of a western empire, escaping with a select bodyguard to parts unknown, but those left out of the new regime stir up the populace against the new leader, at first welcomed eagerly, but because he has lived in the west for many years he is criticized as too foreign and a puppet. And so the tyrant returns to power.

I'm just saying.

Comments

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

Even those who DO learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

And here I was getting so angsty because the world map is looking more and more like the boards for Risk and Diplomacy--I thought it was a sign of the end times, and my dreams of late involve these games with my real-life winning gambit of playing the Middle East. Thanks for putting everything into a longer perspective than Parker Brothers.

Um.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

The same basic story repeats even in Tacitus a couple of times (admittedly making individual instances perhaps suspect).

Without meaning to imply anything I point out that here in Ann. 6 Tacitus seems fairly clearly to be adding details that make the Parthian tyrant something of an equivalent of the contemporary Roman emperor Tiberius, even though he explicitly says he has turned his attention to affairs in the east as a break for the reader from the long list of treason trials at home.

[damiel.livejournal.com]

You said annales.