Mark Antony

**Strike For The South** · 06-06-2020, 01:31

There is always going to be bias when you're being bankrolled by the dynasty that won! Barring some massive finding of papers we are left with Plutarch and Cicero. We get a wild man, drinking and gambling his way nearly to empire. How did he get in that position? Brain? Brawn? Right place? One can't be certain.

**ShadesWolf** · 06-08-2020, 18:21

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

There is always going to be bias when you're being bankrolled by the dynasty that won! Barring some massive finding of papers we are left with Plutarch and Cicero. We get a wild man, drinking and gambling his way nearly to empire. How did he get in that position? Brain? Brawn? Right place? One can't be certain.

Cicero, is quite an interesting point to discuss.
We know he wasnt being bankrolled, unlike Virgil, and he hated tyranny and felt government powers must be limited. The attack on an enemy of freedom (the second philippic against antony) is a good read.
I seem to also remember in Virgils Aeneid the shield of Aeneas shows depicts Rome's glorious future, including the battle of Actium in 31 BC, where Augustus defeated Mark Antony, setting the beginnings of a new hopefully peaceful fuure.