The War of Actium (32–30 BC) was the last civil war of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra and by extension Ptolemaic...
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The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between Octavian's maritime fleet, led by Marcus Agrippa, and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and...
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Actium or Aktion (Ancient Greek: Ἄκτιον) was a town on a promontory in ancient Acarnania at the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf, off which Octavian gained...
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (category People of the War of Actium)
notably the Battle of Actium in 31 BC against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. He was also responsible for the construction of some of the most notable...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Rise of Rome)
509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded from the...
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defeated Pharnaces II, who had plans to restore the Kingdom of Pontus. The War of Actium (32–30 BC), in which Rome delivered the final blow by conquering...
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The wars of Alexander the Great (Ancient Greek: Πόλεμοι του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου) were a series of conquests carried out by Alexander III of Macedon from...
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The First Servile War of 135–132 BC was a slave rebellion against the Roman Republic, which took place in Sicily. The revolt started in 135 when Eunus...
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Republic. In the Battle of Actium, Antony had lost the majority of his fleet and had been forced to abandon the majority of his army in Greece, where...
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Legio X Equestris (category War of Actium)
war, the legion fought for Mark Antony until the defeat in the Battle of Actium, after which the legion moved into Octavian's army. The veterans settled...
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Decebalus used the Roman annual subsidy of 8 million sesterces and craftsmen in trades devoted to both peace and war, and war machines intended to defend the...
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Lucius Pinarius (category People of the War of Actium)
and the early Empire. He served as the Roman governor of Cyrene, Libya during the War of Actium. He was originally loyal to Mark Antony, but eventually...
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Caesarion (redirect from Ptolemy XV of Egypt)
Donations to gain support for war against Antony and Cleopatra. After the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Cleopatra seems...
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Alexander Helios (category People of the War of Actium)
Atropatene and daughter of Artavasdes I. However, Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. The next year...
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Marcus Titius (category People of the War of Actium)
the decisive Battle of Actium. Together with Titus Statilius Taurus he defeated Antony's cavalry. Deiotarus Philadelphus, the king of Paphlagonia, seized...
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Marcus Antonius Antyllus (category People of the War of Actium)
opportunity. After his victory at Battle of Actium, Octavian invaded Egypt in 30 BC. Antyllus was involved in one of three unsuccessful emissaries to Octavian...
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Peripatetic philosopher. At the conclusion of the War of Actium, Antony was defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in September 31 BC, for which Octavian...
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Bellum Siculum (redirect from War between Sextus Pompey and the Second Triumvirate)
the Roman world and setting the stage for the War of Actium. Sextus' father, Pompey, had been an enemy of Julius Caesar for many years, and this enmity...
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in the war large sums were given. In fine, the Roman empire was enriched and its temples adorned. — Cassius Dio, Roman History Early life of Cleopatra...
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Octavian's control, to declare war on Cleopatra. Following their defeat in the naval Battle of Actium at the Ambracian Gulf of Greece in 31 BC, Cleopatra...
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Herod the Great (redirect from Herod of Judea)
contingent were former bodyguards of Cleopatra given as a gift by Augustus to Herod following the Battle of Actium. The Germanic contingent was modeled...
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The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman...
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Horace (category People of the War of Actium)
by Horace in terms of near-drowning. There are also some indications in his verses that he was with Maecenas at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, where Octavian...
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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (category People of the War of Actium)
In 31 BC, Corvinus was appointed consul in place of Antony and took part in the Battle of Actium. He subsequently held commands in the East and suppressed...
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Mark Antony (redirect from Mark Antony (Character of Rome))
punique à la bataille d'Actium [The Roman Republic of the Second Punic War to the Battle of Actium]. Ed. du Seuil. ISBN 978-2-020-23959-2. Davis, Paul...
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Gaius Asinius Pollio (category People of the War of Actium)
Battle of Actium against Antony, but Pollio, remembering the kindness that Antony had shown him, remained neutral. From the spoils of the war Pollio constructed...
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by Octavian. 38 BC: Revolt of Aquitanian tribes – revolt suppressed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa War of Actium or Final War of the Roman Republic (32–30...
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Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic on the island of Sicily. The war lasted from 104 BC until 100 BC. It was one of three...
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Legio X Gemina (category Roman legions involved in Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain)
side of the Second Triumvirate during the Liberators' Civil War and later on the side of Augustus during the War of Actium which ended the Crisis of the...
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Battle of Actium, Cleopatra had Artavasdes decapitated. He had been an enemy of his namesake, King Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, an ally of Antony...
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