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Episode CCII - The Death of Cleopatra and Antony

Emperors of Rome

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Plutarch and Cleopatra - A Novel Review

Plutarch tells us that Antony gets quite dependent. He's not depressed. And this has been a characteristic of Antony all the way through the life of Plutarch, it seems. When things are going poorly for him, he's got a kind of love-sick tendency to get quite emotional about these things. Which would have been seen as the antithesis of how a Roman man should behave.

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