#ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #LOVE STORY: SORTOF: 3/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss.
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
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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.
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| 0:25.2 | The price you pay depends on the cover chosen in your personal circumstances. This is the war that made the Roman Empire, Anthony Cleopatra and Octavian. |
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| 0:36.0 | I on the world. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm John Bachelor with Professor Barry Strauss. |
| 0:39.0 | His new book is The War that Made the Roman Empire, Antony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium. |
| 0:46.2 | We have the three players, Octavian who is adopted by Julius Caesar before his death and |
| 0:52.2 | is the heir apparent except Antony, who is Caesar's right-hand man lieutenant, |
| 0:59.0 | ambition and in the triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian and Antony. |
| 1:05.0 | 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 now Israel what is now Iraq |
| 1:16.1 | Iran Turkey all of that pouring in Armenia pouring into Anthony's possession if he |
| 1:22.4 | puts in the right rulers, he has to conquer pieces of it. |
| 1:25.5 | Remember, Caesar was on his way to conquer Parthia upon the time of his death. |
| 1:30.7 | However, he also has Cleopatra's Treasury and we now enter into a period that is very |
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