It is largely devoted to an account of the battle of Actium, but tells it all in the manner of Callimachus, a style wholly unsuited to the subject-matter. |
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Shortly after the war between Herod and the Nabateans, Julius Caesar's adopted son Octavian soundly defeated Cleopatra at the battle of Actium. |
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The port of Actium, in the Gulf of Ambracia, is on the coast of Epirus, north of Ithaca, directly across the Adriatic Sea from Brundisium. |
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Actium marks the end of a long competition between two antagonistic visions. |
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Antony's fleet sailed through the bay of Actium on the western coast of Greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. |
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At the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC off the coast of Greece, Octavian decisively defeated Antony and Cleopatra. |
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A period of reform occurred between 49 BC, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and 29 BC, when Octavian returned to Rome after Actium. |
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The Ninth remained with Octavian in his war of 31 BC against Mark Antony and fought by his side in the battle of Actium. |
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Antony was defeated in the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and he committed suicide with his lover, Cleopatra. |
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The last Pharaoh was a Greek princess, Cleopatra VII, who took her own life in 30 BC, a year after the battle of Actium. |
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I would also like to talk about what would be my favourite Roman emperor, Octavian, after the battle of Actium known as Augustus, and the Roman Empire, had Augustus Caesar not been around in his roughly 50 year reign. |
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