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At the Battle of Actium, the fabled lovers Antony and Cleopatra made a doomed last stand against Julius Caesar's heir, Octavian. In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan and Cornell historian Barry Strauss talk through the battle that ended the Roman republic, and the sex, treachery, and feuding that transformed the world.
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At the Battle of Actium, the fabled lovers Antony and Cleopatra made a doomed last stand against Julius Caesar's heir, Octavian. In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan and Cornell historian Barry Strauss talk through the battle that ended the Roman republic, and the sex, treachery, and feuding that transformed the world.
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