Antony as a soldier and commander Part Two

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I Claudius intro!!

Thank you.

Have you considered doing an overview of Cicero? I'm curious as to where you place him on the "last republican looking for a moderate compromise" to "self promoting egoist who has no morals beyond looking after himself".

Anthony was a brave soldier and a decent commander at tactical level. A disaster as a strategist. His ultimate failure against the Parthians was due to many fundamental mistakes, including the lack of proper intelligence and the lack of consideration of parthian intelligence. As you righlty said, at Actium he failed even at tactical level. All in all, he proved himself to be a mediocre general.

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Awesome video thx!

Do historians know the identities of all 60 or so legions that Octavian had briefly after the defeat of Antony, before the reform of the army down to 28 legions?

It's an unfair and stereotypical comparison but I always think of Antony as more of Greek than a Roman in terms of his temperament- he reminds me of those charismatic but ultimately flawed men like Alcibiades, Demetrius, Antiochus IV. Play hard, party hard, and then get down to business...but don't always succeed.

I wish he would cut out LESS of his ramblings lol. at the 1 hour mark when he's talking about the water it cuts off & I was totally into that tangent.

Antony seemed to know how to have a good time..enjoyed his character in the HBO Rome show.

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As Adrian stated: Antony got his plumb positions by being
from the inner aristicratic elite circle - others of equal or
better military abilities barely or if ever get a mention.
Winston Churchills priveleged connections and WW1 failures
remind me of Marc Antony.

Marcus Antonius is in my view a victim of ancient propaganda, Octavius and Cicero basically destroyed his reputation and his marriage to Cleopatra played into his enemies hands and led to Antonius losing support of the Roman people... What a sad end for such a great man

Mark Antony's ultimate fate always resonated to me as one of simultaneously the most depressing and unintentionally hilarious in history. It is just...a relentless stream of tragically funny events, as everything he tries to do goes horribly wrong in the most blackly comedic of ways. Up to and including the crowning moment of failing to convince any of his few remaining friends to kill him with dignity, then failing to kill himself on his own. It really is pure Shakespeare. Tragicomedy undiluted.

Ty Professor Adrian! All Hail Cesar Goldsworthy!!

I'll admit to inappropriate giggles over "and then Cleopatra showed him the twins.. the twin children!"

Another excellent video

After Anthony settled in the east and assembled these large armies were most of the recruits Italian or did he try to turn the local Greek speaking population into Legionaries?

I really enjoy these lectures; good work Adrian.

Fascinating talk and brings to life the Antony and Cleopatra biography I read years ago - which I’d recommend!

The Donations of Alexandria. What the hell was he thinking...

I would love to see a video about Sextus Pompey

My cat is called Agrippa.