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. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. 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 and the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Barry Strauss of Cornell University

His new book is The War that Made the Roman Empire.

Anthony Cleopatra, an Octavian at Actium. The lovers have fled Cleopatra and

Antony. They fled back towards Alexandria. At some point Alexandria is aware of the fact that there's been a defeat but they don't learn it from Cleopatra.

Cleopatra returns in triumph, returning to her palace.

She rules a very powerful empire, a very rich empire, the richest of all.

They have gold mines in Egypt. Antony on the other hand having left his army, abandoned his army,

is in despair what the Romans called melancholy.

And Professor, I love the senior present of Antony building a little shelter on a jetty and acting depressed and despairing.

Was that artful on his part or genuine?

Can we tell?

We can't tell.

I mean, the sources say that he really was depressed and perhaps he was

but I could also imagine that this was an act of cunning on Huspart to make people

underestimate him because it's always useful for leaders to be

underestimated and to have able to fly under the radar. I don't think that Anthony had quite given up yet.

The Alexandrian people, this is a powerful, sophisticated, extremely rich society

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