Most people have heard of Mark Antony - but usually only in association with Cleopatra or Caesar. This book looks at Mark Antony through his career and unfolding character in one of the most turbulent 50 years in Rome''s history.'
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By Arch Stanton
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This book is about Marc Antony, triumvir, lieutenant of Caesar, lover of Cleopatra, and the future Emperor Augustus's most formidable adversary. That there isn't more written on one of the most famous men in history is astonishing. This book rectifies some of that. It is short, at only 160 pages, but it covers an awful lot in those pages. Antony is often seen in a negative manner, at least among experts, but Miss Southern points out how hostile all of the sources are to him. Augustus didn't want any positive accounts of Antony to come out, and by the time he died there were few alive who could remember the man.
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One of the most notable things about Antony is that, from a time before Christ, before technology and before the world as we know it existed, Antony nonetheless always shines out as so incredibly human - a major historical character who we can relate to, be frustrated with and even bizarrely care about. Antony's character has always intrgued me from Shakespeare studies at school.
All too often, Antony is linked purely with Cleopatra, yet there is much more to Antony than this and Southern does an excellent job at looking at the facts (such as we know them) and fleshing them out to a far kinder and (in my view) realistic view of who Antony was. For my part, two thousand years may have passed and yet I somehow how no difficulty in seeing a modern day Antony arranging to meet Curio and Clodius via text, driving to the Senate in a flashy sports-car and being plastered in front of The Sun with Cleopatra with an accompanying scathing headline. Antony is a very real and very interesting character, and this excellent biography more than does him justice.
All too often, Antony is linked purely with Cleopatra, yet there is much more to Antony than this and Southern does an excellent job at looking at the facts (such as we know them) and fleshing them out to a far kinder and (in my view) realistic view of who Antony was. For my part, two thousand years may have passed and yet I somehow how no difficulty in seeing a modern day Antony arranging to meet Curio and Clodius via text, driving to the Senate in a flashy sports-car and being plastered in front of The Sun with Cleopatra with an accompanying scathing headline. Antony is a very real and very interesting character, and this excellent biography more than does him justice.
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An Excellent, if Brief, Biography on a Great Man
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By Arch Stanton
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This book is about Marc Antony, triumvir, lieutenant of Caesar, lover of Cleopatra, and the future Emperor Augustus's most formidable adversary. That there isn't more written on one of the most famous men in history is astonishing. This book rectifies some of that. It is short, at only 160 pages, but it covers an awful lot in those pages. Antony is often seen in a negative manner, at least among experts, but Miss Southern points out how hostile all of the sources are to him. Augustus didn't want any positive accounts of Antony to come out, and by the time he died there were few alive who could remember the man.
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