CLST 100 Lecture 15: Octavian to Augustus.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

They"re probably trying to get both of them to kill each other: there are a couple of battles, antony is forced to go northward into gaul, senate thanks octavian for his helps and essentially dismisses him, octavian called antony and another influential general together and they reconcile their differences at a meeting, decide to form the second triumvirate. Triumviri = rule of three created 43 bc: different than the first, second triumvirate is going to be ratified by the senate, a legal institution of three men to govern the republic, marc antony, octavian, marcus aemilius lepidus, lepidus is a powerful commander, but as things going to progress, he is going to become the add on and marc antony + octavian = primary players, between 49 bc and 44 bc when julius caesar dies, he is the most powerful man in rome (julius.