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    Ancient Rome - Augustus' Rise To Power

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    After Caesar's assassination, three men vowed to avenge his death: Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. They formed an alliance called the Second Triumvirate that divided Roman territory between them. However, conflicts soon emerged as Lepidus resigned and Octavian and Antony began fighting for sole control over Rome. This led to a final war where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the naval Battle of Actium. Octavian then consolidated his power over Rome as the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

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    After Caesar's assassination, three men vowed to avenge his death: Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. They formed an alliance called the Second Triumvirate that divided Roman territory between them. However, conflicts soon emerged as Lepidus resigned and Octavian and Antony began fighting for sole control over Rome. This led to a final war where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the naval Battle of Actium. Octavian then consolidated his power over Rome as the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

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    After Caesar's assassination, three men vowed to avenge his death: Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. They formed an alliance called the Second Triumvirate that divided Roman territory between them. However, conflicts soon emerged as Lepidus resigned and Octavian and Antony began fighting for sole control over Rome. This led to a final war where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the naval Battle of Actium. Octavian then consolidated his power over Rome as the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

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    After Caesar's assassination, three men vowed to avenge his death: Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. They formed an alliance called the Second Triumvirate that divided Roman territory between them. However, conflicts soon emerged as Lepidus resigned and Octavian and Antony began fighting for sole control over Rome. This led to a final war where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the naval Battle of Actium. Octavian then consolidated his power over Rome as the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

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    ANCIENT ROMAN HISTORY

    OCTAVIAN'S RISE TO POWER

    MARCH 2020
    The conspirators and their

    THE AFTERMATH problem


    The two leaders of the conspiracy to kill Caesar were

    OF CAESAR'S
    Marcus Iunius Brutus and Caius Cassius Longinus.
    However, the conspirators had no plan for Rome

    DEATH
    after Caesar's death and did not have the sympathy
    of the Romans. Also, Ceasar's in his will left huge
    estates to the city of Rome as parks and left money
    to each citizen of Rome.

    CASSIUS BRUTUS The Second Triumvirate (43 - 33


    BC)
    Three men vowed to avenge Caesar's death and
    return peace to Rome:
    Mark Antony - general and right hand man to
    Casear
    Lepidus - commander and ally of Caesar
    Octavian - nephew and adopted son of Caesar
    THE BURIAL OF CAESAR - MARK ANTONY'S SPEECH

    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;


    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones;
    So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
    Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
    If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
    And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
    from "Julius Caesar" (W. Shakespeare)
    THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE

    MARK ANTONY LEPIDUS OCTAVIAN


    Killing the "liberators"
    THE SECOND The armies of Octavian and Mark Antony met the
    armies of Caesar's killers in Philippi, Macedonia
    TRIUMVIRATE The Battle of Philippi (42 BC) resulted in the
    death of most of the conspirators and the
    triumvirs consolidating their power in Rome

    Dividing the power


    The triumvirs divided the Roman territory between
    themselves
    Mark Antony - Asia and Egypt
    Lepidus - Africa
    Octavian - Gallia and Hispania

    The start of conflicts


    In 36 BC Lepidus resigned from his position of
    triumvir, leaving Antony and Octavian fighting.
    MARK ANTONY IN EGYPT
    In Egypt, Mark Antony started an affair with
    Caesar's former lover Cleopatra VII, Pharaoh of
    Egypt. Their story is immortalized in the
    Shakespeare play "Antony and Cleopatra".
    THE FINAL WAR OF THE REPUBLIC
    36-29 BC

    Octavian engaged in heavy propaganda against


    Antony playing on Romans' anti-Eastern sentiments
    Octavian managed to convince the Roman Senate
    to declare war on Antony and Cleopatra
    Antony's and Octavian's fleet met in the naval at OCTAVIAN MARK ANTONY
    Actium (29 BC) which ended in Octavian's victory
    Antony fled to Alexandria, Egypt with Octavian in
    his footsteps
    With the city under siege, Antony and Cleopatra
    committed suicide
    Octavian took control of Egypt and later had
    Caesar's son, Caesarion murdered
    THE VICTORY AT ACTIUM ENABLED OCTAVIAN TO CONSOLIDATE HIS
    POWER OVER ROME AND THE SENATE.

    HE ADOPTED THE TITLE OF PRINCEPS ("FIRST CITIZEN") AND IN 27 BC


    WAS AWARDED THE TITLE OF AUGUSTUS ("REVERED") BY THE ROMAN
    SENATE.

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