Word: fulvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, big-chested, lusty Antony, easily bored, with ten mistresses to Caesar's one, seemed an even less likely fellow for any woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...