Octavian magnified Cleopatra to hyperbolic proportions to do the same with his victory—and to smuggle Mark Antony, his real enemy and former brother-in-law, out of the picture. As Antony was ...

"Cleopatra negotiated with Octavian to allow her to bury Mark Antony in Egypt. She wanted to be buried with him because she wanted to reenact the legend of Isis and Osiris. The true meaning of the ...

Cleopatra always had a high-profile ... in 44 B.C.E. After Caesar’s death, Mark Antony began sharing an uneasy alliance with Gaius Octavian (Caesar’s grandnephew) and army general Marcus ...

Octavian defeated Antony's forces at the battle of Actium in 30 B.C. Shortly afterward, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, he by his own sword, she by a poisonous asp. Octavian, according to ...

Standing in the Roman senate, Octavian read out the shocking details of Mark Antony's will. It was a devastating revelation that immediately gave the young schemer a major advantage over his soon ...

Julius Cesar and Cleopatra in the Horrible Histories ... With Caesar gone, Rome was being ruled by three men including Mark Antony and Octavian. Mark Antony was married to Octavian’s sister ...

Roman General Mark Antony, disputing Octavian’s right to leadership, formed a romantic and political alliance with Cleopatra. However, he abandoned her and the twins she bore him to marry ...

Fake news and political propaganda are not new, but they are pervasive. Research into how to change minds that seem invested in myth rather than fact has implicated memory.

Despite being among the most important naval battles in history, many questions remain about the encounter between the fleet of Octavian and that of Marc Antony and Cleopatra at Actium. In this book ...

ISBN: 1783462701 Sorting Fact from Fiction in the Life of One of Rome’s Most Famous Generals Courtesy of Shakespeare and Hollywood, Mark Antony (83-30 BC) is among the most famous of all Roman ...