Marcus Antonius, most usually referred to as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician, general, and occasionally ruler who was born on January 14, 83 BCE. Antony was derived from the Julii family, which was both a prominent plebeian (a citizen of a lower social class in Roman society) and an old patrician (a member of…
Mark Antony’s life span spanned the final half-century of the Roman Republic. To say that Antony’s life was spent in politics or the military would be an understatement; his family’s lengthy and renowned history should not come as a surprise. As time went on, his love standing became more and more significant, despite his success…
Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last active king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. During her reign, which lasted from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C., she oversaw the government of Egypt. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty, and hence a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy…
Marcus Antonius, which is pronounced in English as Mark Anthony, was a politician and army general from the Roman Republic. He helped in transforming the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire. Mark Anthony married five times and had eight children. He was also a supporter of Julius Caesar. Gaius Julius…
Antony was born at Rome on January 14, 83 BC, on the 14th day of the first month. A prominent orator who had been slain during Gaius Marius’s purges in the winter of 87–86 BC is his father and namesake, Marcus Antonin Creticus, who was Marcus Antonius Creticus’s son. Julia, Julius Caesar’s mother, was…
