FOLKS,
BIG DAY.
ACTIUM.
I made a real effort in this video to be as charitable as possible to Antony, which...in the end it didn't come out to be all that charitable. Maybe medium charitable. Room temperature charitable.
Antony did have a bad brain, and there's no getting around that, but I do think that the commentary about him making blunder after blunder in the lead up to Actium is kinda overstated. In the video I show (or I try to show!) that his decision making was...if not perfect, at least REASONABLE, but that the circumstances on the ground slowly limited his options as time went on.
On a related note, the research for these videos have only made my opinion of Agrippa go up and up and up. I'm sure that comes across loud and clear in the video, lol.
Enjoy!