#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germnanicus search for the lessons of Cleopatra: why did she depart from Actium? Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
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1899 Actium
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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, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | 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. |
| 0:25.6 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.0 | P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:30.1 | This is Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:32.3 | I am Gaius. Germanicus is with me. |
| 0:35.0 | We're in Londinium. We're going to sacrifice to the God Augustus and go on home |
| 0:41.0 | because there's the theaters dark tonight at the amphitheatre. |
| 0:45.0 | We've had difficulty getting good acts coming all the way to Londinium. |
| 0:50.0 | We don't have enough of an audience for them sometimes. They're getting greedy but okay fine |
| 0:56.9 | They'll be back they'll miss us |
| 0:59.5 | We are however going to mention since we've recommended Cleopatra as an example |
| 1:06.5 | of a successful Queen lessons of Cleopatra and I'm going to go first. Cleopatra fled Actium. I don't have any reason to believe |
| 1:18.6 | she fled it because she was frightened. It wasn't her fight. She didn't need to commit her superior warships to |
| 1:31.5 | Mark Antony. Mark Antony and Octavian wouldn't settle their dispute. |
| 1:37.0 | They wouldn't rule the empire together. |
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