The End Is Not Always the End

The battles at philippi not only marked the effective death of the republic, it also marked the pinnacle of mark antony's career. Sextus pompey had re emerged following his defeat in spain, and was now in control of the liberator navy. If the triumvers couldn't be defeated on the battle field, sextus decided the next best thing would be to literally starve them of support. Next week there will be no episode. I know i just skipped a week, like a month ago, but i'm going to have to do it again. The soon to be missus history of rome is graduating on friday, and we are