Introduction Primary sources are very important in the aid of research. They give us first hand accounts of historical events, whether as an actual participant, witness or simply an historian of the time. Primary resources I used for this paper are the writings of Plutarch and Dio Cassius. There...

Cleopatra VII's personal abilities, such as her apparent intellectual ease for learning and her political awareness along with her personal attributes, such as her suggested "beauty" or captivating presence led her to be viewed in equally positive and negative ways in both the Roman a...

"His taints and honours waged equal with him" Does this play support or oppose this Reading of Antony? Philo, one of Antony's loyal friend and partner in war, has seen Antony going from one respectable soldier to then abandoning his everything about the empire upon meeting Cleopa...