For 10 points, name this event that Enobarbus describes in Act III of Antony and Cleopatra, a battle where Antony was defeated by Octavian's navy.
One poem about this event describes an apparition of Apollo, who looked as "when, dread Python's writhing coils o'ercome, / he slew him when the peaceful lyre was dumb." Another poem about this event describes how "the sun looks down on a shameful mosquito-net" and attacks a man who "deigns to serve the withered eunuchs." A poem set in the aftermath in this event compares a man hunting a "deadly monster" to a "sparrow-hawk" who follows a dove or a "swift hunter" pursuing a hare; that poem, concerning this event, claims, "now is the time to beat the earth with unfettered feet" and "now is the time for (*) drinking." The ninth of Horace's Epodes is about this event, as is the 37th poem in his first book of Odes. This event is depicted as the culmination of a series of other scenes, including the Gauls taking the citadel, Catiline hanging from a rock, and Cato dealing out laws, in the centerpiece of Aeneas' shield in the Aeneid. For 10 points, name this event that Enobarbus describes in Act III of Antony and Cleopatra, a battle where Antony was defeated by Octavian's navy.
One poem about this event describes an apparition of Apollo, who looked as "when, dread Python's writhing coils o'ercome, / he slew him when the peaceful lyre was dumb."
The Battle of Actium