Posted on 01/09/2023 11:04:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv
By the first century BCE, Rome had gained control of the entire Mediterranean, but those conquests had been accompanied by a century of civil war that witnessed the assassination of politicians on all sides of the political spectrum. At one point, the adherents of one populist politician marched on Rome's temple of Castor and Pollux, which was closely associated with the Senate, and tore up the temple steps. This period of nearly continuous warfare would not end until 31 BCE, when Julius Caesar’s nephew Octavian vanquished the combined forces of Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra at the battle of Actium in northwestern Greece. This talk reviews the events leading up to the conflict, the circumstances of the battle itself, and the relationship between Egypt and Rome thereafter.
Octavian, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium
Penn Museum | 68.7K subscribers | 6,865 views | April 3, 2022
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About the SpeakerC. Brian Rose, Ph.D.,is James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section. Since 1988 he has been Head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy, and between 2004-2007 he directed a survey project in the Granicus River Valley that focused on recording and mapping the Graeco-Persian tombs that dominate the area. In 2013, he became director of the Gordion Excavations in central Turkey, and in 2015 was elected President of the American Research Institute in Turkey. His research has concentrated on the political and artistic relationship between Rome and the provinces (Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period, Cambridge, 1997), and on the monuments of Troy during the Classical periods (The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy, Cambridge, 2014).
I’ve watched several Penn videos the past couple of weeks, all excellent and worth a look. Thanks for the post.
In the years following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, internal Roman power struggles—combined with the increasingly negative response to Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony's romantic partnership—led to the deterioration of the relationship between Egypt and Rome. The conflict ultimately came to a head with the Battle of Actium in September of 31 BCE, in which the Egyptian forces were decimated at sea by the Romans—with Cleopatra and Marc Antony barely escaping with their lives. The aftermath of this battle set the course for the final desperate year of Cleopatra's life. Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, speaks at this "Great Battles: Moments in Time that Changed History" series lecture program.Great Battles: From Actium to an Asp,
The Beginning of the End for Cleopatra the Great
Penn Museum | 68.7K subscribers | 7,872 views | February 15, 2013
My pleasure, and I agree, looks like it'll be a good source for GGG topics for a while, as long as I beware the Ides of Woke. :^)
Yes, en garde ... Wokeness Creep is a real thing.
I wonder whatever happened to Cleopatra’s kids?...............
The second season of HBO’s Rome covers this period reasonably well. I’’ve got and old Avalon Hill game Trireme which covers the Naval Battle, and a variety board game wargames from SPI and other publishers which cover from the days of Egypt and Babylonia to the Fall of the Holy Roman Empire. It’s tough to beat Roman Infantry when they have even a mediocre General, and Octavius hand a great General and solid ally in Agrippa.
This was the battle that essentially turned Octavian into Augustus.
Caesarian - Julious Caesar’s son with Cleopatra Octavian had killed. He clearly was a threat to Octavian’s rule.
The three children she had with Mark Anthony, See link below
https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/cleopatras-children-and-descendants.php
I was miffed because I thought a lot was cribbed from The First Man in Rome series of novels, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Lineage
https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/cleopatras-children-and-descendants.php
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I believe the sun was killed but the daughter lived to be the Queen of antolia or somewhere in that region.
Cleopatra Selene II (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Σελήνη; summer 40 BC – c. 5 BC; the numeration is modern) was a Ptolemaic princess, Queen of Numidia (briefly in 25 BC) and Mauretania (25 BC – 5 BC) and Queen of Cyrenaica (34 BC – 30 BC). She was an important royal woman in the early Augustan age.
The face on a coin from that time seems to depict Cleo, and she was just a bit uglier that Helen Thomas ...
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