The characterisation of Mark Antony
This dissertation aims to focus on the way in which Marc Antony has been portrayed in Antiquity by a careful and critical study of what the ancient (mainly literary) sources have to reveal about this historical personage.
The Influence of Context on the Leadership of Cleopatra
She is an important leader in that she was one of the first influential female leaders in her time with more power than most female leaders could not acquire. She is important figure in history because her life in leadership influenced her people, Egypt, and the world.
How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome
Beginning with the third century B.C. Roman economic policy started to contrast more and more sharply with that in the Hellenistic world, especially Egypt.
Cleopatra: Heroine or Harlot?
Cleopatra: Heroine or Harlot? Derek Shank Labyrinth: An online journal published by the Classical Studies Department of the University of Waterloo, Issue 91…
The Death of Cleopatra
This article, which focuses on the last days of Cleopatra and Antony, draws much of its evidence from the writing of Plutarch, a Greek who lived roughly a century after Cleopatra and based his information on contemporary texts which are no longer extant, and on the memoirs of Cleopatra’s physician, Olympus.
Res publica constituta : Actium, Apollo and the accomplishment of the triumviral assignment
This thesis will focus on the battle of Actium and the ways in which the Caesarian regime represented and commemorated this conflict and turned it to Octavian/Augustus’s purpose.
Queen of Kings: Kleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria
Queen of Kings: Kleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria Rolf Strootman Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East: Occidens et Oriens 19…
Vergil's Aeneid VIII and the Shield of Aeneas: recurrent topics and cyclic structures
An analysis of Book VIII of Vergil’s Aeneid will result in the observation that this book forms a cyclus in the way that it ends as it starts, the preparations being underway for the war against Mezentius. Inside this frame, two units, the first larger than the second, concentrate on the topics of Hercules’ connection with Rome and the shield of Aeneas.