Mark Antony served as an official during Caesar’s Civil War; he never appears in person in the play. In Act II, Cleopatra tells Caesar of how Antony restored her father’s rule of Egypt. She swoons over Antony’s youth and good looks and daydreams about marrying him. When Caesar departs for Rome at the end of the play, he promises to send Antony to Egypt for Cleopatra. The real Mark Antony had an affair with Cleopatra and had three children with her.