Here are some key dates related to our reading of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra:

Antony (83 - 30 BCE)

Cleopatra (69 - 30 BCE)

Second Triumvirate

Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE)

Antony (83 - 30 BCE)

Lepidus (c.88 - 12 BCE)

Pompey (67 - 35 BCE)

Battle of Actium (31 BCE)

Antony & Cleopatra vs. Octavian

First Triumvirate (60 - 53 BCE)

Julius (100 - 44 BCE)

Crassus (115 -53 BCE)

Pompey (106 - 48 BCE)

Battle of Philippi (42 BCE)

Antony & Octavian vs. Brutus & Cassius

Virgil (70 - 19 BCE)

Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE)

Plutarch (46 - c.119 CE)

Thomas North trans. Plutarch’s Lives (1579) 

Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

The Tragedie Anthonie and Cleopatra (1607)

First Folio (1623)

Elizabeth I (1533 -1603)

James VI & I (1566 - 1625)