#ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #LOVE STORY: SORTOF: 5/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss.
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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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| 0:40.0 | The war that made the Roman Empire |
| 0:42.0 | Anthony Cleopatra and Octavian, at Actium. |
| 0:45.6 | Professor Barry Strauss is the author. He's the Beaumar chair of humanistic studies at Cornell University, |
| 0:51.4 | the distinguished classicist of several books in this period for those |
| 0:55.6 | of us who do not have the Latin or the Greek. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a great treat to speak with Barry about a battle that I did not know to solve before this book, Actium. |
| 1:06.0 | It's understood as a naval battle. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, sort of. |
| 1:10.0 | It's also a battle of maneuver, and it teaches the lesson again and again we get in the 20th and the 21st century. |
| 1:17.0 | Tactics are for amateurs, logistics are for professionals. |
| 1:21.0 | And what you're about to hear is Barry Strouse's explication |
| 1:25.8 | of how Octavian defeated Antony because he had a logistical genius named Marcus Agrippa. |
| 1:33.4 | Barry, thank you very much. |
| 1:35.4 | We need to do a little geography. |
| 1:37.1 | Why did the vast Ptolemaic fleet built by Cleopatra's Treasury, Cleopatra and Antony leading. |
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