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The Battle of Actium
Portrait thought to be Cleopatra, British Museum
Augustus bronze head from Meroe, British Museum
Marble portraits of Augustus from British Museum and Munich Glyptothek
Augustus of Prima Porta, Vatican Museum Blacas Cameo of Augustus, British Museum Hilt of the Tiberius Sword showing Tiberius offering Augustus a victory, British Museum
Two busts of Marcus Agrippa in the Louvre and the Pushkin MuseumThe Portland Vase c. 10 BC-10 AD, British Museum
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Figures on the Portland Vase identified as Augustus and his sister Octavia by Susan Walker, British Museum
Antony and Cleopatra (according to Susan Walker) on the Portland Vase, British Museum
Coins of Antony and Cleopatra
Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra 1883
Intemperance Mark Antony and Cleopatra by Thomas Stothard c. 1802 Roman world after Brundisium pact 40 BC
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Donations of Alexandria 34 BC
Fleet movements before Actium
The Balkans during the Actium campaign 31 BC
Disposition of forces before Actium
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Battle of Actium by Lorenzo Castro 1672, Queen’s House Battle of Actium use of ballista
Cleopatra's squadron breaks out
Marines from Cleopatra's galleys from C1st BC Nile Mosaic of Palestrina
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Mikalitzi memorial to Actium showing captured rams Mikalitzi memorial to Actium ruin
Mikalitzi memorial to Actium showing captured rams receptacle three of 23
Coins issued by Antony after Actium for the 2nd, 12th and 16th Legions
Antony raised to Cleopatra's monument by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher
Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse 1888
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Cleopatra by Thomas Francis Dicksee 1876 Death of Cleopatra from Chelsea Porcelain Vase 1763, British Museum
The Death of Cleopatra by Reginald Arthur 1892Death of Cleopatra by Jean Andre Rixens 1874
An Audience at Agrippa's by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus & Octavia by Jean-Joseph Taillasson 1787, National Gallery
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Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia by Jean-Baptiste Wicar 1790-3, Art Institute of Chicago