RE-RELEASE: Actium, Baby! (With Barry Strauss)
This week, historian and author Barry Strauss takes us back to the beach at Actium to deconstruct how it all went wrong for Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
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In this episode, we return to the beach at Actium with author, historian, and academic Barry Strauss as our tour guide. His new book, The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium, discusses the infamous sea battle Marc Antony and Cleopatra fought against Octavian and Agrippa for love, for supremacy, for their very survival.
Join us as we deconstruct this battle, paint a vivid picture of ancient war at sea, and tackle the one question everyone’s asking: why did Cleopatra flee the battlefield?
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