octavian comes to rome

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year 44BC: what was octavian doing?

  • 18 years old

  • from an insignificant family

  • adopted as julius caesars heir

  • gets the name gaius julius caesar

  • gives his own money to the poor of rome

  • gives a games in honour of J.C

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year 44BC: what was mark antony doing?

  • caesars fellow consul

  • had to deal with the problems after J.C’s death

  • responsible for destroying the assassins of J.C

  • some people feared he was gaining too much power

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year 43BC: what was octavian doing?

  • decimus brutus was overthrown and the senate asked consuls hurtius and pansa to defeat M.A

  • they were not successful so the senate allowed octavian to take pro praetor powers to aid them

  • hurtius and pansa die in battle

  • M.A is defeated at the battle but only decimus brutus is allowed to hold the triumph; octavian is ignored

  • octavian marches on rome and demands to be made consul

  • mints the coin of octavian/J.C’s head

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year 43BC: what was M.A doing?

  • demands a province and takes cisalpine gaul

  • decimus brutus was the rightful governor of cisalpine gaul but M.A overthrows him

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year 42BC: what was octavian doing?

  • formed an alliance with M.A and lepidus called the second triumvirate

  • in the proscriptions, he kills political opponents and takes their land/money for himself

  • styles himself as “divi filus” (son of a god)

  • claims that he is avenging his father by defeating brutus and cassius

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year 42BC: what was M.A doing?

  • forms alliance with octavian and lepidus to defeat brutus and cassius

  • in the proscriptions, he also kills political opponents and takes their land/money for himself

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