Second Triumvirate Essay
The Second Triumvirate
43BC-36BC
MAIN POINTS:
1. Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance 2. Octavian’s Temporary Collaboration with the republicans 3. Octavian’s first consulship 4. Octavian and Anthony join forces 5. Creation of the Second Triumvirate 6. Formation of a body to run the state 7. Beat the liberators 8. Then, divided the empire, Anthony the West and Octavian the East 9. However, tensions quickly arising
Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance
* Octavian was in Macedonia at the time of Caesar’s assassination and did not learn of his inheritance till his return to Rome. * Despite his parents’ opposition, Octavian decided to agree to the inheritance and also took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. * He now had two aims: * Avenge his father’s death * Prove worthy of such a father and even surpass his achievements. * As he moved through Italy to Rome, Caesar’s friends and legions welcomed the young man. * Octavian did not expect the hostile reception from his father’s best friend, Marc Antony. This was shown in two ways: * Antony attempted to block …show more content…
Let no one harbour any one of those whose names are hereto appended, or conceal them, or send them away, or be corrupted by their money. Whoever shall be detected in saving, or aiding, or conniving with them we will put on the list of the proscribed without allowing any excuse or pardon. Let those who kill the proscribed bring us their heads and receive the following rewards: to a free man 25,000 Attic drachmas per head; to a slave his freedom and 10,000 Attic drachmas and his master's right of citizenship. Informers shall receive the same rewards. In order that they may remain unknown the names of those who receive the rewards shall not be inscribed in our registers." Such was the language of the proscription of the triumvirate as nearly as it can be rendered from Latin into
43BC-36BC
MAIN POINTS:
1. Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance 2. Octavian’s Temporary Collaboration with the republicans 3. Octavian’s first consulship 4. Octavian and Anthony join forces 5. Creation of the Second Triumvirate 6. Formation of a body to run the state 7. Beat the liberators 8. Then, divided the empire, Anthony the West and Octavian the East 9. However, tensions quickly arising
Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance
* Octavian was in Macedonia at the time of Caesar’s assassination and did not learn of his inheritance till his return to Rome. * Despite his parents’ opposition, Octavian decided to agree to the inheritance and also took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. * He now had two aims: * Avenge his father’s death * Prove worthy of such a father and even surpass his achievements. * As he moved through Italy to Rome, Caesar’s friends and legions welcomed the young man. * Octavian did not expect the hostile reception from his father’s best friend, Marc Antony. This was shown in two ways: * Antony attempted to block …show more content…
Let no one harbour any one of those whose names are hereto appended, or conceal them, or send them away, or be corrupted by their money. Whoever shall be detected in saving, or aiding, or conniving with them we will put on the list of the proscribed without allowing any excuse or pardon. Let those who kill the proscribed bring us their heads and receive the following rewards: to a free man 25,000 Attic drachmas per head; to a slave his freedom and 10,000 Attic drachmas and his master's right of citizenship. Informers shall receive the same rewards. In order that they may remain unknown the names of those who receive the rewards shall not be inscribed in our registers." Such was the language of the proscription of the triumvirate as nearly as it can be rendered from Latin into