[SunkenCiv]

About the Speaker

C. 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).

[Quentin Quarantino]

I’ve watched several Penn videos the past couple of weeks, all excellent and worth a look. Thanks for the post.

[pgyanke]

BCE is annoying...

[Red Badger]

I wonder whatever happened to Cleopatra’s kids?...............

[Waverunner]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

By the first century BCE BC, 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 BC...

FIFY

[nickcarraway]

Immortal longings.

[Savage Beast]

Thanks for posting this. I watched the video. It’s very interesting. (I never really thought I understood the Battle of Actium and the Roman civil wars before.)

[Gay State Conservative]

“BCE” = I’m not even slightly interested.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[CFW]

I read that headline as the “Battle of Athens”, and my first thought was that I thought that Athens battle was a little later in history.