artsykat
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Hello, I'm Kateri, nice to meet you~!
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Post by artsykat on Dec 8, 2016 9:04:35 GMT
When reading about Marius Antony, I see an obvious difference in comparison to Caesar in terms of leadership skills, political reasoning, and cunningness. To me, he appears to be naive in the political world, as if he's not sure what he's doing. When I think about Caesar, I see a well though out person, however with Antony, he seemed to make rash dissensions. This statement is backed up with the fact that when Caesar was murdered, things immediately went south for Antony, and not even his popularity and good looks could save him from Octavian's armies. Even after fleeing to Egypt, he was completely caught up with Cleopatra, and handled things rather poorly. I guess in the grand scheme of things, Antony is an ant when compared to the far greater politicians/generals and leaders, such as Alexander, Caesar, ect.
(once again apologies for my tardiness! I'll be posting my other point tomorrow, or rather, today?)
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Post by Christopher Martin on Dec 9, 2016 14:35:27 GMT
Excellent points! Let's just be careful to hedge our comments with an understanding that this is Plutarch's interpretation of these men. Dominique: would you care to chime in? Do you agree or disagree . . . maybe a bit of both?
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Post by Dominique Martin on Dec 10, 2016 0:06:59 GMT
I do agree. i think he focused more on short term without taking into account anything long term. Even Plutarch described him as being "full of ostentation, foolish bravery, and vain ambition." Maybe this isn't exactly how he was, but he must have been at least somewhat for Plutarch to write about him this way.
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