With his ally, Marc Antony, he fought and killed Caesar's old enemies. Victorious, he divided the spoils: Augustus took Rome and Antony got Egypt. The peace did not last long. Antony was quickly ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

After a brief introduction, Southern opens with separate chapters on the early life of Cleopatra, a complex tale reflecting the highly dangerous condition of being an heir to the Ptolemies, and of ...

Antony delivers his famous speech to the people of Rome after Caesar has been murdered. In it, he underhandedly questions Brutus while also assuring his audience that he is noble. He reminds the ...

By 44 BC, Caesar was dead and Rome had again sunk into civil war. Cleopatra returned to Egypt as Caesar’s great-nephew and heir, Augustus, teamed up with Marc Antony and Lepidus to fight Caesar ...