... failed to rise to sufficiently irrigate the land, Nonetheless she managed to keep peace on both the country side and in Alexandria. Meanwhile civil war was erupting in Rome once again, one between Octavian and Antony and then against Caesars assassins. "Cleopatra, as a ruler of the richest state in east Mediterranean, received appeals for help from both parties," "(Lucy ... Octavian to the west Lepidus with Africa and Antony to the east where she soon allied herself with the promiscuous and handsome Roman general. The political ramifications of such an alliance was huge for both Cleopatr...

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... of Caesar, a teenager by the time Cato the Younger had committed suicide, refusing to accept Caesar's clementia, and an adult approaching middle age by the time of Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra. Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the ... demise of the Republic. Even figures like Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla had died less than 100 years before ... with all of the other great personalities of the late Republic. Livy had seen the impact of men like Sulla, Marius, Pompey, and Caesar, and was...

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