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 ...

This denarius celebrates the successful conclusion of Octavian's Egyptian campaign. The campaign began with the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, at the Gulf of Ambracia on the western coast of Greece, in ...

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 ... comparing Antony’s behavior with that of hisrivals ...