Comments on: Mark Antony's Persian Campaign http://www.historynet.com/mark-antonys-persian-campaign.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Fri, 24 May 2013 00:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alexander Shah http://www.historynet.com/mark-antonys-persian-campaign.htm#comment-981951 Alexander Shah Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:28:01 +0000 #comment-981951 This article is poorly written, contains No cited information, but is apparently a jejune account of the complex story of Antony derived from verbatim (and uncritical) source reading of Plutarch or some such amateur \historian\ of antiquity. And a huge error in conception is stated: \After a march of 1,000 miles from Rome to Armenia, he did not allow his Roman soldiers time to rest and refit, but marched at once into Parthian territory.\ BS! - Antony marched from Syria and not from Rome. It was not Julius Caesar or his nephew who were leading troops east - but \the first Byzantine\, Mark Antony. This article is poorly written, contains No cited information, but is apparently a jejune account of the complex story of Antony derived from verbatim (and uncritical) source reading of Plutarch or some such amateur \historian\ of antiquity.

And a huge error in conception is stated:

\After a march of 1,000 miles from Rome to Armenia, he did not allow his Roman soldiers time to rest and refit, but marched at once into Parthian territory.\

BS! – Antony marched from Syria and not from Rome. It was not Julius Caesar or his nephew who were leading troops east – but \the first Byzantine\, Mark Antony.

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