HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Divi Filius, Senatorial Province, Roman Senate
7 Jan 2018
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After philippi, in 42, the roman world was in the iron grip of the second triumvirate. Caesarian party was triumphant and caesar had been deified by the senate. Octavian took the title divi filius, son of a god". The other great power of the triumvirate was mark antony. He was not invited to the meeting between octavian and antony at. Brundisium in 40 at which the two divided the world between them. Octavian was to have charge of the west, including italy, and antony of the east. And antony was to marry octavian"s sister octavia. He claimed that antony was betraying rome to egypt, intending to rule at cleopatra"s side as. Egyptian king, and he declared war, not on antony, which would be civil war, but on cleopatra. In other words, he presented it as a war between rome and egypt, where his forces were.
