An evil Marc Antony?

How do you know he was good?

He spent his youth causing trouble, and by the time he was twenty he owed several million dollars by todays standards. He had to flee to Greece to get away. He may have been good on the battle field but that's where he could have stayed... Mark Antony was an amazing general but that's all he was. He was a terrible politician, he left behind Rome to join Cleopatra not out of love but thirst for power, he humiliated Octavia who never did anything to hurt him and he fought in the civil wars because he actually believed that he could beat Agrippa despite the fact Antony didn't know how to direct a row-boat let alone a navy. He underestimated just how good Agrippa was on sea and in battle, one of his greatest mistakes... he was big-headed.

Octavian was an ambitious dude and Antony was ambitious dude without the brains who deserved everything that happened to him because it fitted her personality perfectly (unless you believe those lying Hollywood movies). Antony had it in for Octavian because he thought that he should have been named heir, that's why he came up with all of that pathetic propaganda. Propaganda is the most powerful weapon a man can have, if he knows how to use it.

Was Antony a great man? Yes (one of the best generals who ever lived.) Was Antony a good man? No way.

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Marc Anthony was considered the greatest general of his time(If he really was the greatest is another question), witch counts for a lot in a military state like Rome.

I don’t consider him evil or good. He was a man of his time, and as far as I know neither Octavian, Caesar, Pompey or any other of the Roman leaders(maybe Claudius) were particularly moral by our standards.

I agree that the Marc Anthony in "Rome" is probably the closest portrayal of the real man in any movie or TV series. He is cruel and self absorbed at times, but he also shows greater quality’s like honour and brotherhood( he goes to help Caesar in Greece, even though he believes it will lead to certain death for himself. He was offered a truce by Pompey if he didn’t go to Greece.)