HUMA 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Princeps Senatus, Octavians, Maius
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31 bce, battle of actium: only real confrontation between mark antony and octavian, antony"s soldiers were demoralised from idleness in egypt and the fact that antony brought. Bad luck to have a women on the front: primarily a naval battle, before the battle began, cleopatra took a ship and fled the battle. Antony chased after her, abandoning his soldiers: soldiers surrendered. 30bce, octavian marched into egypt to capture antony and cleopatra but they committed suicide. Octavian commissioned some coins to be minted to celebrate his victory over cleopatra. Cleopatra is seen as a woman with a sense of nobility. Egypt was annexed to become a province: really became the private possession of octavian, governor of egypt was an equestrian personally selected by octavian, augustus would not allow any senator to enter egypt without his consent. Octavian is going to monopolize the grain trade into rome with egypt as his bread basket.
