FEMALE COMMAND IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: 1/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 11 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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| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
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| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
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| 0:28.0 | P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is a new book to tell the story of |
| 0:36.8 | This is CBS I on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:39.6 | A new book to tell the story of |
| 0:42.2 | Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, the speech at the funeral, |
| 0:47.0 | galvanizes Rome. However, there is a young man listening into all of these |
| 0:52.4 | events named Octavian and from the death of |
| 0:55.4 | Caesar until the rise of Augustus aka Octavian there is a battle between Romans that involves the Queen of Egypt, the |
| 1:07.0 | Queen of the Ptolemaic Empire, Cleopatra. A new book, The War that Made the Roman Empire, Anthony Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium. |
| 1:18.0 | Barry Strauss, I welcome him, he is the Beaumar Chair of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. |
| 1:24.1 | He is also my guide on these matters because I do not have the classical languages. |
| 1:29.1 | Barry does. |
| 1:30.4 | And he can help us understand moving between the Greek historians and the Roman historians to remember these events. |
| 1:37.0 | Barry, congratulations and a very good evening to you. |
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