CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Auctoritas, Imperial Province, Vestal Virgin
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Before the three campaigned against sextus, octavian had a horrible defeat by. Embarrassing because octavian was mandated to get sextus out of italy and he needed antony for help. They defeated sextus because agrippa stepped in. After meeting at tarentum, antony returned to east. Territorial divisions and administration organized by pompey (the great) for asia, One of vassal kingdoms of rome was egypt, which had been commended to roman people by ptolemies: the ptolemies had ruled egypt after death of alexander. Antony had summoned cleopatra late in 41 bc to meet at antioch. O cial reason was the cleopatra had given aid to cassius and so had to be punished. Real reason was antony"s need for monies from treasuries of ptolemies for his campaigns. In 41 bc, cleopatra conceived their rst two children, twins. After a second meeting with antony in 36 bc, cleopatra becmae his wife, married him and had 1 more child with him.