many questions remain about the encounter between the fleet of Octavian and that of Marc Antony and Cleopatra at Actium. In this book Prof. Fratantuono (Maynooth) seeks to clarify what is known about ...

In his new book THE WAR THAT MADE THE ROMAN ... to eighty warships that managed to break out of Actium. “As they headed south from the battle zone on the lusty breeze, they weren’t quite ...

Getting to the answer took more than 13 years—until Caesar’s chosen heir, Octavian, crushed his rival Mark Antony in a ferocious naval battle at Actium, a Roman outpost along the Greek coast.

Strauss makes his case in his new book, The War that Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium, re-creating the battle in detail, as well as what he maintains was the ...

Cornell University classicist Barry Strauss is an accomplished author of several scholarly books and articles on ... among them the battle of Salamis, the Trojan War, Spartacus’s slave revolt ...

The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. was an epic showdown that pitted Mark Antony and Cleopatra against spurned former ally Octavian. When Octavian eventually reigned supreme in battle, it meant the ...

Virgil proved himself the first Italian, says David Gilmour, when he misleadingly wrote up the Battle of Actium as a conflict ... This is a scholarly book with an important central argument ...

After his victory at the battle of Actium, Augustus was a hero to the Roman people. But he knew that the Senate still viewed him with suspicion. Augustus was very aware of the bloody fate of his ...