Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-1636709-20180220051930

For all the Greek-Roman clashes in the book, thing is the Persians conflict with the Carthaginians makes the Punic Wars look minor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_Wars#Roman_Republic_vs._Parthia

If we count the Byzantines, the conflicts lasted nearly 700 years, and only ended when Persia was overthrown by the Muslims.

They captured emperors, took many lands, and were a constant pressure.

So, let's say that Octavian met a representative of old Persia. Be it a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simurgh, some sort of Persian equiv. of Magician or Demigod, or something else...what does he do?

Does he spit venom? Does he go mad?

Heck, would invoking Persians anger the Romans? I mean the Greeks eventually got vindication, but the Romans really never did.... 