3/8: Octavian the supremely successful and sly despot: 3/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
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3/8: Octavian the supremely successful and sly despot: 3/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
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.
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| 0:39.6 | His new book is The War that made the Roman Empire, Antony Cleopatra and Octavian at |
| 0:45.4 | Octim. |
| 0:46.4 | We have the three players, Octavian, who is adopted by Julius Caesar before his death and is |
| 0:52.5 | the heir apparent except Antony, who is Caesar's right hand man, Lieutenant Ambition and in |
| 1:01.2 | the Triumvirate with Leopoldus and Octavian and Antony. |
| 1:05.3 | Antony has the richest portion of the empire. |
| 1:07.8 | The treasuries pour in not only all of the treasuries of what is now Syria, what is |
| 1:13.8 | now Israel, what is now Iraq, Iran, Turkey, all of that pouring in Armenia, pouring into |
| 1:20.5 | Antony's possession if he puts in the right rulers, yes to conquer pieces of it. |
| 1:25.8 | Remember, Caesar was on his way to conquer Partheia upon the time of his death. |
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