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Alive more than 2,000 years ago, we continue to be enthralled by the Egyptian queen. Cleopatra VII was arguably the most influential queen in…

Insights from Barry Strauss.

Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the married Mark Antony, who because of his defeat of the assassins of his patron, and Cleopatra’s onetime lover, Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. had become sole ruler of the Roman East, precipitated not only Antony’s downfall but her own. The brother of Antony’s spurned wife, Octavia, happened to be Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian, later the Emperor Augustus and already in command of the western hal...

Enormous, massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon.

The often repeated aphorism “history repeats itself” and the related axiom attributed to Winston Churchill, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” were foremost on my mind as the tragic events in Ukraine unfolded this past week. During a period of relative peace, it is easy for those of us who have yet to finish college to dismiss these axioms, yet it became clear on Thursday, February 27, 2022 that history does indeed repeat itself.