PREVIEW: #ROME: #VALENTINE'S DAY: ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: From a conversation with author Barray Strauss for his new book, The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium: sort of a love story, 200 years later, as told by Octavia
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PREVIEW: #ROME: #VALENTINE'S DAY: ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: From a conversation with author Barray Strauss for his new book,
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium: sort of a love story, 200 years later, as told by Octavian's propaganda. More later.
https://www.amazon.com/War-That-Made-Roman-Empire/dp/1982116676
The Battle of Actium had great consequences for the empire. Had Antony and Cleopatra won, the empire’s capital might have moved from Rome to Alexandria, Cleopatra’s capital, and Latin might have become the empire’s second language after Greek, which was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Egypt.
1917 Cleopatra
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium: sort of a love story, 200 years later, as told by Octavian's propaganda. More later.
https://www.amazon.com/War-That-Made-Roman-Empire/dp/1982116676
The Battle of Actium had great consequences for the empire. Had Antony and Cleopatra won, the empire’s capital might have moved from Rome to Alexandria, Cleopatra’s capital, and Latin might have become the empire’s second language after Greek, which was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Egypt.
1917 Cleopatra