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An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss

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The War That Made Roman the Roman Empire

If octavian had lost and cleopatra won, the empire would have been more eastern than western. I'm not convinced that they would have tried to conquer britain. And i think you would have gotten a much more helenized empire. If it had become christian, it would have become more like orthodox christianity. It wouldhave become more like the eastern world. Whatever romance languages developed in europe, they would have been much more greek than than they are.

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