Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection

Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

This is CBSi on the world.

I'm John Batchew with Berry Strauss, the author, the professor,

Barry Strauss, the Beomer, chair of Humanistic Studies

at Cornell University, and the author of several books now telling the story of the Roman

Empire and its predecessor in the Greek Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and what is to become of all of these memories of the first

great empire of the Mediterranean basin. The book is the war that made the Roman Empire.

We're talking about the Naval Battle of Actium. However, Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian are the

contestants. There are other players here. We need to introduce Cleopatra.

Barry Cleopatra enters on a barge, a spectacular presentation celebrated by poets and Shakespeare and everyone of course,

to wow Antony at Tarsus. Her entry to Caesar

wowed him. Who was Cleopatra? Where did she get these skills there?

So Cleopatra was the Queen of Egypt and she was a member of the dynasty of the Ptolemy's

Ptolemy had been one of Alexander the Great's generals and after Alexander died

Ptolemy took over Egypt and turned it into his own personal kingdom and

Ptolemy and his successors turned Egypt into one of the

great states of the ancient world. They built a new capital city called

Alexandria which at the time of our story, was the greatest city of the ancient Mediterranean.

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