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FEMALE COMMAND IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: 4/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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FEMALE COMMAND IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: 4/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

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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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

0:10.2

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

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, keep everyone's plans alive when you travel

0:27.4

with us.

0:28.4

P, and O'Ferees, there is another way.

0:30.0

I'm John Bachelor with Barry Strauss, Professor Barry Strauss at Cornell University,

0:34.3

whose new book is the war that made the Roman Empire, Antony Cleopatra,

0:38.1

an Octavian at Actium.

0:40.1

And here comes the mistake that Ant could have avoided it's called an

0:43.6

unforced error in sports and it's a whopper professor what is his decision of

0:48.2

his wife Octavia?

0:50.1

Anthony decides to divorce Octavia.

0:54.0

And this is a propaganda bonanza for Octavian in Rome,

1:00.0

saying Anthony has betrayed his Roman wife and the mother of his two daughters and

1:06.7

instead he has turned her over for Cleopatra for this Egyptian queen he's no longer a real Roman he's no longer representing

1:16.7

Roman interests and this is this is the banner that octavian wants to go to war

1:22.0

war under.

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