person
Mark Antony
Antony
also: Антоний
Roman general and triumvir, remembered above all for his love affair and political alliance with Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
Reading notes
- On June and July §20 Mark Antony
Roman general and triumvir; credited here, in a real historical detail played for comic bureaucratic effect ("through the patronage of"), with securing the renaming of the month Quintilis to "July" in honor of Julius Caesar.
- In Winkler's Museum §7 the dissolute Antony
Mark Antony, the Roman triumvir whose love affair with Cleopatra was proverbial in the 19th century as an emblem of a great man undone by passion -- here reduced to a vague museum prop, "the nets" that supposedly snared him.