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Young Caesar vs Marc Antony

The Ancients

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Are We Still at War With Antony?

Peace is a fluid, complex concept in this period. We've got people in the roman senate saying we need to make peace with antony and peace is the only way to achieve stability. There's clearly a great value to this concept of peace in terms of presenting these alliances and negotiations as successful. As i tioned, young caesar and mark antony celebrate a military triumph or a military ovation in rome because they made peace with each other. It seems very strange, perhaps, from a modern christianized concept of peace, that it would be militariistic. But indeed, for the romans it was. The fact that you've got two romans

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