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A New Book to tell the story of Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, the speech at the funeral, galvanizes Rome. However, there is a young man listening into all of these events named Octavian and from the death of

Caesar until the rise of Augustus aka Octavian.

There is a battle between Romans that involves the Queen of Egypt, the

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at Actium. Barry Strauss, I welcome him. He's the Beaumar chair of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University.

He is also my guide on these matters because I do not have the classical languages, Barry does,

and he can help us understand moving between the Greek historians and the Roman historians to remember these events.

Barry, congratulations and a very good evening to you.

The first thing we must attend to is the source of these reports of this drama between these three, Antony, Octavian, and Cleopatra.

Who left us the notes that you're working from?

Good evening to you, Baron.

Good evening, John.

Thanks very much for inviting me to speak to you. So in answer to your question, the first source that we turn to is Plutarch. Plutarch, a Greek living more than a century after the events that are recounted here.

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