The real contenders are Anthony and Octavian. In their transactions, the western part of ancient Rome gave Octavian and the east belonged to Anthony. At that time, the western region, including today's France, Italy and other places, mostly belonged to underdeveloped regions; while the eastern region included today's Greece, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and other places, extremely rich. Anthony's wishful thinking is based on the strong financial resources of the east, adjusting the lineup, training the soldiers and horses, and annihilating Octavian with the power of Mount Tai.
The situation is so obvious that most people think that Anthony will definitely get the world. Cleopatra thinks so.
Legend has it that when Anthony was young, he went to Egypt with the army and had a relationship with Cleopatra. Later, Caesar received Cleopatra from the city of Rome. Anthony also visited frequently, and the good people who led the later generations made up a piece of Anthony who always stared at Cleopatra. However, Anthony's skill is not to lose Caesar. Before he joined the army, he was a rogue son who was famous for borrowing money in Rome. But he lacks Caesar's discretionary power, more enthusiasm than reason.
Cleopatra easily captured him, they soon became lovers, and they were open. When Anthony and Cleopatra sought fun in Egypt, Octavian struggled in the West. The enemy he needed to face was even Anthony's wife, Vivea. Vivea led the troops into the city of Rome. Her husband was looking for a lover outside. The wife was not angry but also risked his life to help him. It was really puzzling!
After Anthony learned it, he immediately led the army to cross the sea. Unexpectedly, just after landing, he received the news that his wife was defeated. Anthony simply called himself to bring the soldiers to come to justice. When Octavian was inconvenienced at this time, he continued to co-sign with Anthony and married his sister Ottawa to Anthony. Ottawa is not an ordinary woman. In the history of Rome, she is the perfect wife who combines beauty and virtue, so that Anthony did not return to Egypt for four years, but lived a happy life in Athens. After Cleopatra's Hongyan biography, he ignored it, and the political affairs of the military were also thrown aside.
The second Pompey? Anthony is not Pompey. Four years later, when Octavian swept away the pirates of the Mediterranean in a thunderous way, Anthony suddenly realized that he could not do this and that the house was getting stronger every minute. Anthony wasted four years and was inactive, and even the Romans were asking: "Where did Anthony go?"
Anthony decided to do something to restore his prestige. He wants to expedite Patia, the country that gave Krassu a life. The country is close to Egypt, so Anthony ordered Cleopatra and led the army to the division.
Perhaps it is tired of the good wife and good mother of the Uandada, and perhaps the means of Cleopatra is really high-powered. In short, after four years of reunion, Anthony, who has just gotten up, has stepped into a wilting situation: After the Cleopatra prisoner did not say, she promised to marry her.
This is a big disaster. The Romans at the time did not refrain from the lover, but they were extremely resentful of bigamy, not to mention that Anthony was still married to a foreign woman. The Romans suddenly became angry. What makes them even more angry is that this dizzy Anthony even sent many ancient Roman territories to Cleopatra as a wedding gift.
How can Octavian let go of such a good opportunity? At the meeting of the Senate, under the gaze of the lawmakers, Octavian announced loudly the abolition of the covenant with Anthony. This means war. The decisive battle in which the Octavian fleet defeated occurred in 31 BC. e. off Cape Shares, off the coast of Western Greece. Cleopatra insisted that the battle at sea decide the war. Firstly, the more trusted the sea, which splashed against the walls of the Alexandrian palace. Secondly, in the event of a defeat by the sea, it is easiest to slip away. Thirdly, at sea, Cleopatra with Egyptian ships acted as a military leader and would have received a considerable share of glory in case of victory, while Anthony would have attributed a victory on land. Cleopatra was afraid that she would be deprived of the triumph that she hoped to share with her husband. Anthony's miscalculation was that he agreed with Cleopatra. The Octavian fleet consisted mainly of libourines - light elongated ships with two rows of rowers, which were faster and more maneuverable than Anthony's ships.
The battle has begun. Soon she turned into a normal battle of galleys. The Romans pursued, in fact, the only goal - to translate naval combat into hand-to-hand combat. They threw footbridges on the decks of enemy ships. It seemed that the more powerful and numerous galleys of Anthony should have prevailed. But his sailors and warriors were inferior in preparation to the soldiers of Octavian. To replace the wounded, Anthony had to hastily recruit Greek peasants into the soldiers, who did not want to participate in this battle. Roman ships began to crowd out the system of Egyptian galleys. True, the outcome of the battle was not yet decided. But suddenly, behind a line of Anthony’s heavy ships, a purple sail was hoisted on an Egyptian galley, signaling a retreat. And then all the galleys of Cleopatra raised their sails and headed to the open sea. Cleopatra apparently decided that the battle was lost.
Anthony fled the battlefield after Cleopatra. He moved to the fleet galley, without giving any order, without saying anything to his soldiers. Three hundred ships from his fleet fell into the hands of Octavian. The large land army waited six days for the return of its leader and then surrendered without a fight. No one ever heard from Anthony the explanation that made him abandon the fleet. The words of Plutarch can serve as a kind of verdict to him: “At that moment, Anthony showed the world that the thoughts and motives of the leader and man had ceased to govern his actions, Anthony, hastening after Cleopatra, lost his victory”.