FEMALE COMMAND IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: 8/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
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🗓️ 28 July 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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| 0:30.0 | This is CBSi and the world. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm John Batcheworth Professor Barry Strauss of Cornell University |
| 0:36.2 | his rich new book with whopper stories that you have to go along with because they're so well |
| 0:41.6 | staged the war that made the Roman Empire entity. along with |
| 0:43.7 | the war that made the Roman Empire Anthony Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium. |
| 0:48.3 | The Caesar's dead. |
| 0:49.4 | Anthony's dead. |
| 0:50.1 | 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 |
| 1:12.3 | vicious wits. However, Rome is going to be the center of Octavians |
| 1:16.6 | Empire. So Octavian has to build this slowly over many years and we're going to race ahead to when he becomes |
| 1:24.8 | Augustus in 27 27 is a 27 yes 27 yes 27 yes |
| 1:30.4 | yes yes why does he take the name Augustus? What does that mean for his ambitions? |
| 1:35.0 | So Octavian is a very cunning guy and he knows that his great uncle Julius Caesar failed |
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