On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar lay dead from 23 knife wounds inflicted by his assassins. The next day, the question on every Roman citizen’s mind was: Who will rule Rome now? Getting to the ...

Mark Antony and Cleopatra were partners for 11 years and had three children together. Apart from their undoubted mutual affection, their alliance was politically useful. Think about it: here was the ...

The Battle of Actium proved to be a pivotal moment in Roman history, and world history, as Cleopatra and Mark Antony faced Octavian and Agrippa upon the seas as chronicled by Cornell professor Barry ...

Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...