Mark Antony
Mark Antony was a Roman general and politician of the 1st century BCE, ally of Julius Caesar and later rival of Octavian.
His romance with Cleopatra of Egypt became legendary, dramatized most famously in Shakespeare's *Antony and Cleopatra*.
His name evokes doomed love affairs and political ambition undone by passion.
Also spelled Marcus Antonius.
Egypt's last pharaoh
- Julius CaesarRoman dictator and general
- AugustusRome's inaugural emperor
- OctavianRome's founding emperor
- Second TriumvirateRoman three-man rule
Alexandria · Roman Republic · Ptolemaic · Egypt · Ides of March · Senate · consul · Cicero
Roman dictator and general
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- funeral orationSpeech praising the deceased
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
iambic pentameter · Elizabethan · bard · dramaturgy · thespian · stage · monologue · dialogue
Egypt's last pharaoh
- loversRomantic partners
- passionIntense emotional drive
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
alliance · betrayal · tragedy · devotion · infatuation · liaison · forbidden · embrace
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
- funeral speechOration for the departed
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
public speaking · discourse · oration · articulation · mob · Forum · eulogy · diction
Great many, or armies
- generalWidespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- cavalryMounted military force
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
tactics · siege · infantry · centurion · standard-bearer · battlefield · warfare · strategist
Cleopatra
Egypt's last pharaoh
- Julius CaesarRoman dictator and general
- AugustusRome's inaugural emperor
- OctavianRome's founding emperor
Second Triumvirate · Alexandria · Roman Republic · Ptolemaic · Egypt · Ides of March · Senate · consul · Cicero · proscriptions
Julius Caesar
Roman dictator and general
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- funeral orationSpeech praising the deceased
Globe · iambic pentameter · Elizabethan · bard · dramaturgy · thespian · stage · monologue · dialogue · performance
Cleopatra
Egypt's last pharaoh
seduction · alliance · betrayal · tragedy · devotion · infatuation · liaison · forbidden · embrace · desire
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
- funeral speechOration for the departed
demagogue · public speaking · discourse · oration · articulation · mob · Forum · eulogy · diction · address
legions
Great many, or armies
- generalWidespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- cavalryMounted military force
campaign · tactics · siege · infantry · centurion · standard-bearer · battlefield · warfare · strategist · maneuver
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Nero, Trajan
- Roman Civil WarJulius Caesar, Pompey, Rubicon, Roman Republic, Brutus
- Plutarchbiographies, biographer, Alexander, Caesar, Brutus
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- Caesar's legacyRoman Empire, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Julian calendar, dictatorship