Blood and betrayal turned Rome from republic to empire. Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian transformed Rome 2,000 years ago through military might, power plays, and political ...

In 42 B.C. Rome’s three most powerful men carved up the republic among them. The triumvirate of Lepidus, Octavian, and Mark Antony was an uneasy alliance after turbulent times.

Augustus took Rome, and Marc Antony took Egypt. Cleo and Marc Marc Antony fell in love with Cleopatra soon after they first met. Captivated, he decided to stay with her in Egypt.

There, he planned to deliver to the Senate a series of speeches known as the Philippics to undermine Mark Antony and to try to rally senators against accepting an emperor.

Her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were a source of particular scandal, not least in Rome. The statesman Cicero, for one, summed up his feelings about her with a simple “I hate ...

Antony’s father married a Julia, a member of a patrician clan that dated back to before the foundation of the republic. The marriage produced a daughter and three sons. Mark Antony, the eldest boy, ...

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Mark Antony, or Marcus Antonius, was a Roman politician and general. He was assigned Rome's eastern provinces, including the client kingdom of Egypt, then ruled by Cleopatra.