Marc Antony

For all his lapse of judgment during this period of his life, Marc Antony was a great Roman and deserves his romantic reputation among poets, scholars and historians. The future Commander in Chief of Julius Caesar’s army was born into a wealthy family in Rome in 83 B.C., and he enjoyed a military lineage and upbringing that saw him leader of the Roman cavalry from 58 B.C. to 56 B.C. and then under Caesar from 54 B.C. to 50 B.C. (Marc 10). Pompey, Caesar and Crassus formed a Second Triumvirate during the Gallic Campaign while the leaders of the First Triumvirate were fighting. Antony went to Syria after this with Pompey and Crassus. He would make it to Syria with only a javelin, sword and wooden shield. The men would break through the great wall guarding Syria and its conquest added one more jewel to the Roman Empire. Antony fought in Gaul under Caesar a

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him and he fell in love with her. While Caesar was in Egypt, his wife Fulvia had declared minor wars on the other members of the Triumvirate. By the time Antony arrived home he discovered that she had died. One of the first things the Second Triumvirate set out to do after the Senate had elected Caesar was to kill the assassins of the newly divine Caesar. Both Brutus and Cassius (main planners of the assassination) committed suicide after losing a battle to the three Roman leaders. Before relations broke down between Octavian and Antony, they would break down on behalf of Lepidus. During the reign of the Second Triumvirate a good many of Antony’s friends were killed. Octavian allowed Antony to marry his sister Octavia. Antony and Octavia moved to Athens to live. During this time she made a trip to Rome but Antony visited Cleopatra in Egypt while she was gone. Soon after this the part of the empire ruled by Lepidus fell, but this pleased both Antony and Octavian. They ruled for five more years until 33 B.C. They called their pact during this period the Treaty of Tarentum. However, Antony went to Egypt shortly after the treaty was signed. The course of events that would transpire there between he and Cleopatra incensed
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