#ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #LOVE STORY: SORTOF: 8/8: 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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| 0:43.7 | the war that made the Roman Empire Anthony Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium. |
| 0:48.3 | The Caesar's dead. |
| 0:49.3 | Anthony's dead. |
| 0:50.2 | Cleopatra's dead. |
| 0:51.3 | Cesarean is dead. Octavian is the winner with his friend Marcus Agrippa and his sister Octavia. |
| 0:58.0 | Alexandria is the marble wonder of the world, richest the best the best library the best |
| 1:05.4 | physicians the people are rich and spectacular and very cunning and and and have |
| 1:12.4 | vicious wits. However, Rome is going to be the center of Octavian's |
| 1:16.7 | empire. So Octavian has to build this slowly over many years and we're going to race ahead to when he becomes |
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