The Battle of Actium proved to be a pivotal moment in Roman history, and world history, as Cleopatra and Mark Antony faced Octavian and Agrippa upon the seas as chronicled by Cornell professor Barry ...
On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar lay dead from 23 knife wounds inflicted by his assassins. The next day, the question on every Roman citizen’s mind was: Who will rule Rome now? Getting to the ...
Historian Strauss (The Caesars) delivers a gripping account of the war for control of the Roman Empire that culminated in Octavian’s decisive victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of ...
Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...
The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, ...
Imagine a joint Roman-Egyptian Empire with its capital at Alexandria, with Caesars dressed like Pharaohs and the world ruled not from the Tiber but from the Nile. Western Europe is a backwater, and ...
The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 480 pages Antony and Cleopatra, the names conjure up a variety of images that include Roman military might, eastern decadence and ...
Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.
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