Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 1): The Show Notes

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jenny Williamson in Blog posts | 0 Comments

We begin this week’s Show Notes with an obligatory playing of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by Bruce Cockburn:

And, ladies and gentlepeople, we give you Lepidus, as played by Butters in South Park as Professor Chaos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ2m0aWHwHk

OK. Moving on.

The modern sources crucial to our telling of the story include:

And our ancient sources include:

Appian’s Civil Wars (Horace White translation)

Plutarch’s Life of Antony (Bernadotte Perrin translation)

Cassius Dio’s Roman History (Earnest Cary translation)