Why Octavian Built a Statue of a Donkey (Antony, Cleopatra, Octavian, Part 2/2)

Part 1:    • How Octavian Became Consul at 19 (Antony, ...   Part 2 of 2. Antony and Cleopatra against Octavian: the Donations of Alexandria, a stolen will, Actium, and the name Augustus. This part runs from 36 BC to 27 BC, when the only name left on the form is his, and he still won't tick KING. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:40 Octavia and the letters 2:02 The Donations of Alexandria 4:02 Letters, sewers and the consuls 5:38 The divorce, the will and the war 7:52 Actium 11:23 Alexandria 16:20 Rome after the war 17:25 Augustus Sources (every narrated claim was checked against these translations) Plutarch, Life of Antony (trans. B. Perrin, Loeb 1920) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (trans. J. C. Rolfe, Loeb 1913) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Cassius Dio, Roman History, books 49-53 (trans. E. Cary, Loeb 1917) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, book 2 (trans. F. W. Shipley, Loeb 1924) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Res Gestae Divi Augusti (trans. F. W. Shipley, Loeb 1924) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Macrobius, Saturnalia 2 (the ravens; our rendering of the Latin) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Dialogue is dramatised for comedy. Quotes from real people are our plain-English renderings of the ancient sources above. Where the ancient writers disagree (how Cleopatra died, why Antony followed her ships), the video says so. Characters are cartoons, not portraits. Music "Clash Defiant" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Five Armies" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Fluffing a Duck" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Gymnopedie No 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Heroic Age" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Investigations" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Master of the Feast" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Merry Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Pippin the Hunchback" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Rites" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Sad Trio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Scheming Weasel faster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Teller of the Tales" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Map imagery: NASA Blue Marble (public domain). Sound effects: CC0, Freesound.