Ancient monument sheds light on battle of Actium

Re:Ancient monument sheds light on battle of Actium by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:30AM (#19541719)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa

"On September 2, 31 BC, the Battle of Actium was fought. Octavian's victory, which gave him the mastery of Rome and the empire, was mainly due to Agrippa."

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Re:Ancient monument sheds light on battle of Actium by anacleto on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:42AM (#19541761)

I was about to say the same. Augustus didn't have at the time much battle strategy skills. And in all fairness, military strategy was not his thing.

Actium – like my other battles under August's reign – was mainly due to Agrippa's military skills. In a hypothetical ranking of best Roman generals of all time, he should probably be placed somewhere between 1st and 5th place.

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Re:Ancient monument sheds light on battle of Actium by jhellan on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:39AM (#19541995)

Augustus lived into his late seventies partly due to his poor health, which forced him to stay away from many of his battles.

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