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Which Roman conquest marked the traditional end of the Hellenistic Age in 30 BCE?
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Hellenistic age
The figure, who is possibly Dionysus, riding a panther, a Hellenistic opus tessellatum emblema from the House of Masks in Delos, Greece, 2nd century bce.
The traditional end of the Hellenistic Age in 30 BCE is marked by the Roman conquest of Egypt.1
Following the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, Octavian (later known as Augustus) captured Alexandria in 30 BCE. The subsequent suicides of Antony and Cleopatra effectively ended the Ptolemaic dynasty and brought the last major Hellenistic kingdom under direct Roman dominion.234