Andrew Schulz

Now it's them butting heads.

So Mark Antony eventually has to go to Alexandria.

He's got this marriage.

He has two kids with Cleopatra.

But eventually this dog, Augustus, is going to come down and

this guy's going to be Rome's first emperor.

Augustus is just a crazy, amazing story.

But I'm not... Well, I'm not really a Roman historian, but it's this... Just think about, like... We're not really a history book.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Yeah, yeah.

But essentially, think about this young kid who... Who...

is kind of growing up in the shadow of Julius Caesar, who sees this wild Game of Thrones being played in Rome, where politics is literally life and death.

Like, if you're on the wrong side of the political spectrum, you will be assassinated.

And...

you're so smart and you're so cunning and the right things happen in your life and you'd make the right choices and you're, you're, you don't have this like arrogant bravado that Julius Caesar has.

And you're able to, you, you're like calculating every move of all your political rivals and then you win and you win big and you're the greatest emperor that Rome ever had.

When, when Alexander came down to Egypt, um, he was going to bring, uh, he was going to bring Cleopatra, uh,

and Mark Antony?

Yeah, he's going to bring Cleopatra and Mark Antony back to essentially show them off in a parade in Rome.

And the idea is that he presented it in such a way where it's like, oh, we're going to show the unification of our two lands, but really he was going to have them assassinated and he was going to parade them around Rome and show... You mean Augustus?