{"id":105704,"date":"2022-05-23T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=105704"},"modified":"2022-05-23T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:17:49","slug":"secret-weapon-against-emperor-trajan","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/secret-weapon-against-emperor-trajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret &#8220;weapon&#8221; against Emperor Trajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cassius Dio has left a message that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-kingdom\/roman-kings\/\">King<\/a> Abgarus, who ruled in the small country of Osroene on the Euphrates, tried at all costs to remain neutral during the invasion of Trajan&#8217;s Roman troops on the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/neighboring-lands-around-ancient-rome\/parthia-persians\/\">Parthia<\/a>. In order not to offend any of the parties and in the future not to worry about the fate of the kingdom, he decided to use his secret &#8220;weapon&#8221;. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the war, the Romans were the dominant party, so Abgarus decided to use <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/trajan\/\">Trajan<\/a> on his son Arbandes, whom he met in 114 CE in Antioch. The Roman emperor, who had a homosexual inclination, was said to have been extremely enchanted by the party he was invited to by the king, and especially by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/guest-posts\/the-dance\/\">the dance<\/a> that Arbandes performed for him during the feast. Ultimately, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/trajan\/\">Trajan<\/a> recognized Abgarus as his friend and recognized his state as a client state within the Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":105701,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83,147],"class_list":["post-105704","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/105704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/105704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=105704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}