The world in 41 BC — what happened that year

6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

West Asia (3)

• At Daphne near Antioch, a hundred Jewish envoys appeal to Antony, who backs Herod and Phasael and makes them tetrarchs (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews BJ 1.243–244)
• Antony meets Jewish envoys in Asia Minor and makes Herod and Phasael tetrarchs (Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews 14.304)
• Cleopatra sails up the river Cydnus in a barge with a gilded stern (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Antony 26.1)

Egypt & North Africa (1)

• Fulvia wages war at Rome while Antony becomes Cleopatra's captive (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Antony 28.1)

Southern Europe (2)

• He drove Lucius Antonius, who had stirred up new unrest, back into Perusia and forced him to surrender by famine. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Augustus 14 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 9장))
• He was sent by way of Sicily and Achaea to the Lacedaemonians under the protection of the Claudian house, and a fire that spread at night endangered his life. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Tiberius 6)

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