In a live, virtual, Chats in the Stacks talk, Barry Strauss discusses his new book, The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Simon & Schuster  2022), which offers a fresh look at a pivotal moment in the history of the Roman Empire and Western civilization. Drawing on a combination of earlier scholarship and his own original research, Strauss presents a fascinating narrative of jealousy, violence, love, deception, and desperation that ultimately resulted in the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, the crowning of Octavian as Caesar Augustus, and the dawn of 200 years of peace in the Roman Empire. 

Sponsored by Olin Library, the talk is followed by a live Q&A 

The Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies in the Cornell departments of history and classics, Strauss is a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written and edited multiple, award-winning books that have been translated into eighteen languages. Strauss has received fellowships from the American Academy at Rome, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Enterprise Institute, the German Academic Exchange Program, the Korea Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently the Corliss Page Dean Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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