Right this moment we take a historic take a look at the Battle of Actium, an enormous naval battle off the coast of Greece that decided the way forward for what we all know because the Roman Empire.
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We welcome Cornell College’s Professor Barry Strauss again to the podcast to carry one other epic battle to life (listeners will keep in mind him from our deep dive into the lifetime of a well-known Spartan warrior named Brasidas).
Barry is a Professor of Historical past and Classics at Cornell College, Sequence Editor of Princeton’s Turning Factors in Historical Historical past, writer of eight books, and a navy and naval historian and guide.
Professor Strauss is a acknowledged authority as regards to management and the teachings that may be realized from the experiences of the best political and navy leaders of the traditional world (Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander amongst many others).
This specific battle and the lead as much as it concerned a few of the iconic names we’ve all heard from historical past like Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, Octavian Cesar, and Julius Cesar. We additionally find out about Rome’s most embellished Naval Commander, Admiral Agrippa and the way he defeats a numerically superior power. Barry’s latest e-book “The Conflict that Made the Roman Empire” brings this battle and the personalities to life.
Those that respect our fight tales will get pleasure from listening to about how battles had been fought on the open sea presently and a few of the techniques that every facet had to make use of. Whereas a few of the navy techniques have modified, the overarching navy, political, and diplomatic technique haven’t, to incorporate using data warfare.
I hope you get pleasure from this fight story from historical past as a lot as I did.
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Intro Music: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle
Present Notes:
0:00 – Intro
0:19 – Visitor and matter introduction (Barry Strauss)
1:33 – Interview begins
2:27 – Working at Cornell and the way this e-book got here to be
4:25 – Background on the time interval, the Roman Empire, and the a part of the world the battle takes place
10:51 The historic personalities – Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian
26:12 – Can we belief the historical past books?
27:51 – The vital navy determine, Admiral Agrippa
31:09 – The naval battle and technique of Naval warfare
38:16 – Tactical selections made by each side
40:26 – How the battle advanced and occurred in simply someday
46:52 -Shocking findings whereas doing analysis
51:04 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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