#PREVIEW: #ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #OCTAVIAN: #PROPOGANDA: #Valentine'sDay: From my conversation with Professor Barry Strauss, re the theatrical staging of Anotony's suicide and Cleopatra's suicide. A love story, sort of, 2000 years debatable. More latter.
Feb 11, 11:12 PM
#PREVIEW: #ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #OCTAVIAN: #PROPOGANDA: #Valentine'sDay: From my conversation with Professor Barry Strauss, re the theatrical staging of Anotony's suicide and Cleopatra's suicide. A love story, sort of, 2000 years debatable. More latter.
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.
1650 Cleopatra's Banquet
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.
1650 Cleopatra's Banquet