Actium And Its Portrayal

Question 1

Zanker

Answer 1

Antony had become enamoured by Cleopatra and was therefore “no longer a Roman, thus this would be no civil war”

Question 2

Beard

Answer 2

By putting all the focus on Cleopatra rather than on Antony, Octavian represented the war as being against “a foreign rather than a Roman enemy”