HISTORY 1M03 Lecture : History of Greece and Rome-Mar.15 "The Second Triumvirate, Caesar Augustus and the Restoration of the Republic"
16 Mar 2012
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Cicero thinks he can use octavian who demands consulship and marches on. Rome when he is denied: reconciles with: Octavian, marc antony and lepidus triumvirs for the restoration of the state ( second triumvirate": proscriptions. Lists of people who"s rights, property and life were forfeit. Political enemies, people wanted for their properties: 42: antony and octavian defeat cassius and brutus at phillipi. Cassius commits suicide in the first battle. Brutus commits suicide after the first battle. The roman world was then in the iron grip of the second triuvirate; caesar was deified: octavian becomes known as divi filius (son of a god, lepidus left behind in the triumvirate, Octavian claims antony as a traitor of rome, eventually declaring war on cleopatra. Octavian vs. antony and cleopatra, represented by octavian as rome vs. egypt: 31: battle of actium; naval battle, victory for octavian, but cleopatra and. Antony escaped: 30: ptolemaic city seized, and cleopatra and antony commit suicide,
