You said, "I’m surprised you didn’t ask Mark Antony ;P" and you know what? You're right, I totally should have! So I'm doing it now, if you're willing to answer. ^^
✰ What made you fall in love with them?
I wasn’t actually really interested about Mark Antony until Julius Caesar became one of my historical faves. Reading and watching things about Caesar made me become better acquainted with Mark Antony and I came to really like him. I find him to be an interesting historical figure, and I love his relationship/friendship with Caesar!
✰ Favorite anecdote involving them?
During Caesar’s funeral, Mark Antony agreed to stay calm and reasonnable and not saying anything against Caesar’s murderers. He ended up taking Caesar’s bloody toga to present it to the crowd and pretty much gave a speech in which he accused Caesar’s murderers, which provoked the crowd’s fury as people loved Caesar. I pretty much imagine Mark Antony madly cackling as the crowd rioted and burnt down the conspirators’ houses.
✰ Your favorite thing about them?
he’s a bi icon, loveable idiot and actual human disaster who loves to party and loved Caesar and Cleopatra a lot
While he’s seen as a drunkard who can’t compare with Caesar and Cleopatra and wasn’t a military genius, he was Caesar’s faithful lieutenant and friend, he loved Cleopatra more than his life, was a member of the second triumvirat, and was a deeply human and flawed man who enjoyed life and made no secret of it. He was deeply human, who also loved Greek’s culture, and that’s this humour and humanity I love so much in him.
✰ Your least favorite thing about them?
Aside from the fact he committed suicide and died in the arms of his queen, thus breaking my heart?
I only know one, in French, Marc-Antoine : Un destin, de Pierre Renucci, thought I read good reviews about Mark Antony: A Life, by Patricia Southern.
✰ Favorite place associated with them?
✰ Who do you ship them with?
I love his friendship with Caesar! They were good friends and also relatives, and Mark Antony was often, if not always, supporting Caesar in Rome and during military campains.
✰ Favorite event they were involved with?
I would say the Gallic Wars.
✰ Favorite portrayal in film, television, etc? If there isn’t one, who could play them?
I love his portrayal in the mini-series Cleopatra (1999) as well as his portrayal in HBO Rome. It’s actually how I picture him!
✰ Favorite quote about them?
"Mark Antony is an idiot alright, but he’s my idiot” ... what do you mean, this isn’t a quote Julius Caesar said??
✰ Favorite quote by them?
“My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar”
Okay, this isn’t a quote Mark Antony actually said, it’s from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar but this quote gives me a lot of feels!
✰ Three random facts about them?
* Few people know it but he was a distant relative of Julius Caesar! His mother, Julia Antonia, was a distant cousin of Caesar.
* While he’s famous for his romance with Cleopatra, he actually had several wives! His first wife was his cousin, Antonia. His second wife was Fulvia and became a major influence on his political decisions. His third wife was Octavia, Octavius/Augustus’s sister as a political decision, she was the peacemaker between her husband and her brother, and ultimately raised the children Mark Antony had with his fourth and last wife, Cleopatra, after their death.
* He hated Cicero as much as Cicero hated him. Cicero made several speechs against Mark Antony. Thus, the latter ordered his assassination in 43 BC and to nail Cicero’s hands in the Forum (it seemed Mark Antony also never forgave Cicero for ordering Mark Antony’s father in law years before).
✰ Favorite picture/painting of them?
I don’t have one yet, expect the pictures above.
