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In the first century BCE, the Roman world underwent massive political and social change as it transformed itself from a regional republic based on fixed legal precedents into a vast military empire under absolute rule. Goldsworthy (How Rome Fell) uses this scrupulously researched dual biography of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, key players in the drama, to explain how Julius Caesar and his adopted son, Octavian, changed the classical world by using and, ultimately, defeating the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More