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Battle of Actium

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Octavian's fleet defeats Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of Greece. Egypt is annexed the following year, which completes Roman control of every Mediterranean shore and secures the grain supply that the city of Rome depended on. A naval battle, not a land one, is the decisive event - which is itself an argument about what held the empire together.

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Assembled from 31 blocks · 2 evidence · 44 related

  1. Story
  2. Octavian's fleet defeats Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of Greece. Egypt is annexed the following year, which completes Roman control of every Mediterranean shore and secures the grain supply that the city of Rome depended on. A naval battle, not a land one, is the decisive event - which is itself an argument about what held the empire together.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Alexandria
  5. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
  6. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
  7. Battle of Actium
  8. Connections
  9. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
  10. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
  11. Alexandria
  12. The Roman Legion
  13. Assassination of Julius Caesar
  14. Battle of Actium
  15. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  16. Rome
  17. The Roman Road Network
  18. Alexandria
  19. The Punic Wars
  20. The Punic Wars
  21. Battle of Actium
  22. Dedication of Constantinople
  23. Christianity
  24. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
  25. Latin as an Administrative Language
  26. Battle of Actium
  27. Dedication of Constantinople
  28. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  29. Evidence
  30. Augustus's own account of his achievements, in Latin and Greek, listing offices, benefactions, conquests and the claim that he 'transferred the state to the free disposal of the Senate and People'. It is the founding document of the Principate's self-presentation and simultaneously a piece of political advocacy, not a neutral record.
  31. Augustan coinage circulated imperial titulature, portraiture and slogans (CIVIBVS SERVATEIS, SIGNIS RECEPTIS, AEGYPTO CAPTA) to a largely non-reading population across three continents. Coinage is the empire's highest-volume communication medium and one of its few genuinely empire-wide standardisations.
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