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Actium is chiefly famous as the site of Octavian's decisive victory over Mark Antony ( September 2, 31 BC ).
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Since 2002, Actium is linked with Preveza on the north shore of the Ambracian Gulf by the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel, or Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel ( traffic labels ).
After his decisive victory at Actium he builds Nicopolis, the city is populated by Greeks from settlements further inland.
The Aeneid is full of prophecies about the future of Rome, the deeds of Augustus, his ancestors, and famous Romans, and the Carthaginian Wars ; the shield of Aeneas even depicts Augustus ' victory at Actium in 31 BC.
In a notable account by Pliny the Younger, the remora is blamed for the defeat of Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium and ( indirectly ) for the death of Caligula.
The Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel, opened on 2002, is an important work of infrastructure for what has traditionally been a remote and underdeveloped region, and links Preveza to Actium (, Aktio ) on the southern shore of the Ambracian Gulf, greatly shortening the distance of the trip to Lefkada.
* 31 BC-( Battle of Actium )-Either before or after Anthony and Cleopatra are defeated by Octavian ( later Augustus ), it is thought soldiers of Leg.
Also Corinth, Actium produces one of best examples of the period ( Louvre MNB 767 ), detailing still of in the form of grooves and ridges but there is the beginning of modeling in the full roundness of natural form.
Their last appearance is at Actium, where Mark Antony is said by Plutarch to have had many " eights ".
The presence of " nines " in Antony's fleet at Actium is recorded by Florus and Cassius Dio, although Plutarch makes explicit mention only of " eights " and " tens ".
A " ten " is mentioned as Philip V's flagship at Chios in 201 BC, and their last appearance was at Actium, where they constituted Antony's heaviest ships.
In Act 4. 12 of Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Mark Antony is in a rage after losing the Battle of Actium and exclaims, " The shirt of Nessus is upon me.
The earliest positively dated poem in the collection is I. 37 ( an ode on the defeat of Cleopatra at the battle of Actium, clearly written in 30 B. C.
Maecenas ' life spent on culture rather than war is praised, as is his service at Actium ; a long mythological section compares Maecenas to Bacchus and describes the labors of Hercules and his service to Omphale.
Augustus dedicated the prostyle temple ( it is still unknown if it was Ionic, Corinthian or Composite ) to Caesar ( his adoptive father ) on August 18, 29 BC, after the Battle of Actium.
According to the other reconstruction, the Rostra podium was a separate platform built west of the temple of Divus Iulius and directly in front of it, so the podium of the Temple of Divus Iulius is not the actual platform used by the orators for they speeches and was not the platform used to attach the prows of ships taken at Actium.
Peter Morris Green ( born December 22nd, 1924 ) is a British classical scholar noted for his works on Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD.
The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf (), is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece.
The entrance to the gulf is through a 700-meter wide channel between Aktio ( ancient Actium ) on the south and Preveza on the north ; a recent road tunnel connects the two.
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Green's most famous books are Alexander of Macedon, a historical biography first issued in 1970, then in a revised and expanded edition in 1974, which was first published in the United States in 1991 ; his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other works.
The remains of numerous ancient cities lie on its shores: Actium at the entrance, where the famous Battle of Actium was fought in 31 BC ; Nicopolis, Argos Ippatum, Limnaea, and Olpae.
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The Greek historian Strabo visited the site with the conquering Roman troops, following the victory against Cleopatra at Actium.
The Ambracian Gulf near Berenikea was the site of the naval Battle of Actium, on 2 September 31 BC, in which Octavian's ( later Augustus ) forces defeated those of Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.
The Ambracian Gulf was the site of the Battle of Actium, in which Augustus ' forces defeated those of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
Actium and Octavian's
But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.
Thus, Octavian's victory at the Battle of Actium gave him sole and uncontested control of " Mare Nostrum " ( Our Sea i. e. the Roman Mediterannean ) and he became " Augustus Caesar " and the " first citizen " of Rome.
* Antony alerted by Octavian's presence, sets up camp on the southern shore, at the promontory of Actium.
After losing the Battle of Actium to Octavian's forces, Antony committed suicide.
Octavian's forces decisively defeated those of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in Greece in September 31 BC, chasing them to Egypt in 30 BC.
A decade after Caesar's death, Octavian's victory over his erstwhile ally Mark Antony at Actium put an end to any effective opposition and confirmed Octavian's supremacy.
During Antony's civil war, the legion fought for Mark Antony until the defeat in the Battle of Actium, after which the legion moved into Octavian's army.
Beginning with Caesar's assassination in 44 BC and ending with Octavian's victory over Anthony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC, Rome had been engaged in a series of almost constant civil wars.
However, Octavian's victory at Actium also sounded the death knell of the Republic.
Octavian's power was further enhanced after his victory against the combined fleets of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, where Antony had assembled 500 ships against Octavian's 400 ships.
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The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic.
Indeed, the Empire lost all but 30 of its ships and as many as 30, 000 men, and some Western historians have held it to be the most decisive naval battle anywhere on the globe since the Battle of Actium of 31 BC.
After the decisive battle of Actium, Augustus started a century-long era of Pax Romana.
Very soon these galleys would play a decisive role in the battle near Actium.
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The second, the Basilica Neptuni, was built on the Campus Martius and dedicated by Agrippa in honour of the naval victory of Actium.
Sinan Reis, one of his lieutenants, suggested to land troops at Actium on the Gulf of Arta near Preveza, an idea which Barbarossa initially opposed, but which later proved to be important for securing the Ottoman victory.
Nicopolis (, " City of Victory ") — or Actia Nicopolis — was an ancient city of Epirus, founded 31 BC by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium the previous year.
In the aftermath of the battle of Actium in the Ambracian Gulf in 31 BC, Octavian himself founded Nicopolis, the city of victory, in 28 BC, symbolically representing his successful unification of the Roman Empire under one administration and, geographically, a major transportation and communications point linking the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean.
It tends to gloss over the events between the assassination of Augustus ' adoptive father Julius Caesar and the victory at Actium when his foothold on power was finally undisputed.
In 31 BC, the Roman Emperor Octavian removed the population of the city to the new colony of Nicopolis, founded to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Actium earlier that year.
* In 31 BC, immediately after his victory at Actium, Augustus appeared before Pelusium, and was admitted by its governor Seleucus within its walls.
The honorary triumphal arch, originally a city gate, was erected as a symbol of the victory at Actium.
Hijmans argues that the Imperial radiate crown represents the honorary wreath awarded to Augustus, perhaps posthumously, to commemorate his victory at the battle of Actium ; he points out that henceforth, living emperors were depicted with radiate crowns, but state divi were not.
His successors automatically inherited ( or sometimes acquired ) the same offices and honours due to Octavian as " saviour of the Republic " through his victory at Actium, piously attributed to Apollo-Helios.
It was probably founded as a colony by Caesar Augustus after his victory at Actium.
In 31 BC, the great naval Battle of Actium ended the civil wars culminating in the final victory of Augustus and the establishment of the Roman Empire.
After Augustus ' victory at Actium, most of the Roman fleet was dismantled and burned.
When Octavian founded the town of Nicopolis, in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium, he drove Aetolians to populate it but the parts of them moved to Amfissa.
From 7 BC a Lares ' festival on 1 May was dedicated to the Lares Augusti and a new celebration of the Genius Augusti was held on 1 August, the inaugural day for Roman magistracies and personally auspicious for Augutus as the anniversary of his victory at Actium.
Between 146 BC and 395, it was incorporated into the Roman province of Macedonia. The capital of Epirus vetus was Nicopolis, a city founded by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.
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