It would have prepared the ground for Cleopatra's subsequent insistence on appearing " for a man " ( III. vii. 18 ) to bear a charge in the war ; in doing so, it would also have prepared the audience for Antony's demeaning acquiescence in her usurpation of the male role.

According to Appian, Fulvia was a central cause of the war, due to her jealousy of Antony and Cleopatra's affair in Egypt ; she may have escalated the tensions between Octavian and Lucius in order to draw back Antony's attention to Italy.

In this year, he assisted Mark Antony's wife, Fulvia, who was anxious to recall her husband from Cleopatra's court, in the raising of an eight legion army to fight against Octavian's unpopular policies.

But when Antony's campaign against the Parthians failed, he chose to leave him and join Octavian.

Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, Quintus Dellius, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans.

Despite a victory at Alexandria on 31 July 30 BC, more of Mark Antony's men deserted, leaving him with insufficient forces to fight Octavian.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

In order to assure this oath, Octavian forced the high priest of the Vestal Virgins in Rome to hand over Antony's will, which give information over the Roman-conquered territories as kingdoms and plans to build a tomb in Alexandria for him and Cleopatra.

Antony's lieutenant Enobarbus, though, knows that Octavia can never satisfy him after Cleopatra.

Furthermore, Enobarbus, Antony's long-serving lieutenant, deserts him and goes over to Octavian's side.

Cleopatra decides that the only way to win back Antony's romance love is to send him word that she killed herself, dying with his name on her lips.

Historical facts are also sometimes changed: in Plutarch Antony's final defeat was many weeks after the battle of Actium, and Octavia lived with Antony for several years and bore him two children: Antonia Major, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero and maternal grandmother of the Empress Valeria Messalina, and Antonia Minor, the sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger.

After blowing up an auctioneer to cover up the theft of the Sforza, the Mario Bros. take Hawk away inside an ambulance, but when Hawk sticks needles into Antony Mario's face they try to run him down ( as the stretcher Hawk is on falls out of the ambulance as it speeds along the highway ), but are both killed when their driver crashes the ambulance due to the needles in Antony's face.

Antony's political skills and long experience in government have also led him to heading a large number of committees of Ministers in the government, a device that has been employed to obtain consensus within the members of the governing coalition on contentious issues.

" This tale, then, Philotas used to tell ; and he said also that as time went on he became one of the medical attendants of Antony's oldest son, whom he had of Fulvia, and that he usually supped with him at his house in company with the rest of his comrades, when the young man did not sup with his father.

One of the very few things of unusual nature that in Antony's life is a legend told of him when he was prior of Savona.

According to Dio, Antony's story to the proposed marriages is hardly credible and may have been invented by him to offset his own alliance with Cleopatra.

The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome.

Perhaps the most shocking proscription was that of Caesar's legate Lucius Iulius Caesar, Caesar's first cousin once removed ( and Antony's uncle ) and one of Caesar's closest friends.

The first occurred on the first week of October ; Brutus faced Octavian, while Antony's forces were up against those of Cassius.

The suicide of emperor Nero, in 68, was followed by a brief period of civil war, the first Roman civil war since Mark Antony's death in 30 BC.

In its first years, the whereabouts of IV Scythica are uncertain, although it is probable that it took part in Antony's campaign against the Parthians.

: Emma is Antony's first girlfriend.

Subsequently, he graduated with first class honours in history from Newcastle University and obtained his doctorate from St. Antony's College, Oxford, under the supervision of A. J. P. Taylor and John Andrew Gallagher.

Tiberius's second wife was Julia the Elder, Marcus Agrippa's widow ( his first wife had been Vipsania, Agrippa's daughter by his first marriage ); Caesar Augustus adopted Tiberius on June 26, 4, whereupon Tiberius himself adopted his brother Drusus's son by Mark Antony's daughter, Germanicus Julius Caesar.

The first Coptic Orthodox Church in Birmingham was St. Mary & St. Antony's which was established in 1985.

She raised both of Mark Antony's sons and her children by her first husband together for the years of her marriage to their father.

In 1950, he was appointed as the first Warden ( or principal ) of the new St Antony's College, Oxford.

When the Roman Republic ultimately fell in the years following the Battle of Actium and Mark Antony's suicide, what was left of the Roman constitution died along with the Republic.

Antony returns to Alexandria, Egypt, and crowns Cleopatra and himself as rulers of Egypt and the eastern third of the Roman Empire ( which was Antony's share as one of the triumvirs ).

Cleopatra ’ s “‘ Roman ’ language of command works to undermine Antony's authority .” By using a Romanesque rhetoric, Cleopatra commands Antony and others in Antony ’ s own style.

Having failed to perform Roman masculinity and virtue, Antony's only means with which he might “ write himself into Rome's imperial narrative and position himself at the birth of empire ” is to cast himself in the feminine archetype of the sacrificial virgin ; “ once understands his failed virtus, his failure to be Aeneas, he then tries to emulate Dido ”.

The abundant imagery concerning his person —“ of penetration, wounds, blood, marriage, orgasm, and shame ”— informs the view of some critics that the Roman “ figures Antony's body as queer, that is, as an open male body ... not only ' bends ' in devotion ' but ... bends over ”.

Octavian illegally obtained Antony's will in July 32 BC and exposed it to the Roman public: it promised substantial legacies to Antony's children by Cleopatra, and left instructions for shipping his body to Alexandria for burial.

The Battle of Philippi marked the highest point of Antony's career: at that time he was the most famous Roman general and the senior partner of the Second Triumvirate.

These proclamations, known as the Donations of Alexandria, caused a fatal breach in Antony's relations with Octavian, who used Roman resentment over the Donations to gain support for war against Antony and Cleopatra.

The Parthian army crossed the Euphrates and Labienus was able to entice Mark Antony's Roman garrisons around Syria to rally to his cause.

Sextus Pompeius was caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial ( an illegal act since Sextus was a Roman citizen ) by order of Marcus Titius, Antony's minion.

Antony's victory would have freed the Magian Culture, but his defeat imposed Roman Civilization on the young Culture.

It stands at 13. 20m and has a diameter of 29. 50 m. Another important Roman public man, Lucius Sempronius Atratinus, Mark Antony's fleet commander, has a mausoleum, sited in the more recent district of Gaeta: of similar diameter, it is however not as well preserved.

The Donations caused a fatal breach in Antony's relations with Rome and were amongst the causes of the Final War of the Roman Republic.