Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Antony ya shafe hunturu na 42 BC a Athens, inda ya yi sarauta da karimci ga biranen Girka. An sanar da shi "philhellene" ("Abokin dukan abubuwa na Helenanci"), Antony ya tallafa wa al'adun Helenanci don ya sami amincin mazaunan Gabashin Helenanci. Ya halarci bukukuwa da bukukuwa na addini, har da shiga cikin Eleusinian Mysteries, wani rukuni na asiri da aka keɓe ga bautar alloli Demeter da Persephone. Farawa a cikin 41 BC, ya yi tafiya a cikin Tekun Aegean zuwa Anatolia, ya bar abokinsa Lucius Marcius Censorius a matsayin gwamnan Makidoniya da Akaya. Da zuwansa Afisa a Asiya, an bauta wa Antony a matsayin allahn Dionysus wanda aka sake haifa. Ya bukaci haraji mai yawa daga biranen Hellenic don musayar manufofin al'adun Girka, amma ya cire biranen da suka kasance masu aminci ga Kaisar a lokacin yakin basasa kuma ya biya biranen da suka sha wahala a ƙarƙashin masu kisan Kaisar
, gami da Rhodes, Lycia, da Tarsus. Ya ba da gafara ga duk manyan mutanen Roma da ke zaune a Gabas waɗanda suka goyi bayan Optimate, ban da masu kisan Kaisar.