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Valerian captured at Edessa
AD 260 — A Roman emperor is taken alive by Shapur I of Persia and dies in captivity. The nadir: no ransom, no rescue, no reprisal for a decade.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Third-Century Crisis in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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