mark anthony

October 23, 2016
By the fall of 42 BCE, a little more than two years after they had assassinated Julius Caesar, the Roman senators Brutus and Cassius had managed to raise more than 80,000 troops still loyal to the idea of the Republic.

January 14, 2016
Very Short Fact: On this day in 83 BC, 14 January, Mark Antony, Roman general and politician, was born: Cicero’s political speeches, including his Philippics against Mark Antony (the title evoking Demosthenes’ defence of Greek freedom), are the best and final examples of oratory being used to influence political life in Rome.