31 BC | The Battle of Actium
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- For their grand showdown, Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, and Caesar Divi Filius and Marcus Agrippa gather their naval forces off the coast of Actium, prepared to battle for control of Rome!
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Thank you for a great and detailed story of the Actium campaign. As little as I know of ancient military strategy, even I thought immediately that going back to
Egypt and regrouping was a bad idea. If you can't win when you picked the battlefield, something is very wrong in the your strategic thinking.
I would imagine most or all of the military strategy on the Caesar side was done by Agrippa.
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the amount of details... wow! and the holiday intro is cool too ;)
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Hail Caesar, Som of the Divine Julius, Imperator of our beloved Republic! !
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I'm so happy that we get long form videos now.
Another excellent video as always!
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Agrippa was simply a bad ass...
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Merry Christmas to all and a happy late saturnalia. It’s good to celebrate it with a saving history video especially one of such significance
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Nothing like the Burton/Taylor movie depicted it. Then again real life never is like a movie.
This is so helpful for A level Classical studies!! Thank you so much.
This actually reminds me of Alexander the Great's tactics at Gaugamela, but in reverse. Instead of exploiting the gap in the enemy's lines to attack their king, the Queen Cleopetra exploited the gap in her own lines to escape.
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A superb show. Extremely useful for my teaching: depth, analysis and an engaging narrative. Sources would be very useful. Thanks
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Nice Christmas gift. However, am I the only one confused here? Was this a successful breakout by Antonius or a military defeat? If it was a successful breakout, then Octavian won the propaganda war. He made Anthony look bad. How could Anthony not have taken into account the effect running away would have on his men? Damn the treasury. Once violent men lose respect for leadership it is gone for good. Violent men live by very strict rules. Contrast Anthony's behavior with Caesar's at Alessia. No retreat! Stand and fight. If Caesar had retreated at Alessia his men would have been demoralized. Antonius was a poor judge of men. Men will follow even a loser if gallant and defiant. "A king who flees will not remain king for long"
Ok, I'm paraphrasing game of thrones.
Caesar had his share or of retreat and regroups. He lost a battle during a seige in Gaul, regrouped won a large skirmish while retreating on the March. Then he cornered Vercingetorix at Alesia.
Then at the battle of Dyrrachium some of his legions on his left side of the seige were routed by Pompey. Again Caesar retreated, regrouped and then had his winning battle later at Pharsales...
Antony should never have gave battle in Actium. He should've just pushed into Italy right away. He quickly would've seized Rome itself and most likely Octavian and Agrippa would've had to regroup in Gaul.
If not Italy then Antony should've pushed for a land battle in Thrace or Illyricum. There was absolutely no need to have a naval battle at all. Way too many variables at sea. Cleappatra should've stayed in Egypt and Anthony's legates should've kept heavily guarded grain and supply convoys flowing from Egypy to Greece to Thrace or Illyricum.