Add to ORKGAfter Caesar’s murder, Decimus Brutus went to govern Cisalpine Gaul, which Antony legally exchanged for Macedonia. Decimus Brutus’ career is briefly discussed, as are the events, which postdated his refusal to surrender his province. The alliances at Mutina were unusual: the consuls Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa, as well as Octavian, fought on the side of Decimus Brutus against Antony. The aftermath of Mutina and particularly the flight of Decimus Brutus are analysed in detail, as well as his death among the Sequani, whose dynast was Camilus. Appian’s (possible) sources and his reliability are discussed, particularly his use of the Memoirs of Augustus. Light is shed on the problem of how the artillery machines of Decimus Brutus’ army...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
Lucius and his army were spared because of his kinship with Antony, the strongman of the East, while...
The end of the Roman Republic was affected by decades of civil war, leaving the Roman population des...
On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman stat...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the a...
Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria, when Julius Caesar was...
While one camp of historians have followed the words of Cassias Dio, that Trajan began the war to av...
Originally named Gaius Octavius, he was born into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebei...
The author begins his discussion of the problems associated with Marcus Antonius’s exercise of the o...
Octavian and Lepidus launched a joint operation against Sextus in Sicily in 36 BC.[94] Despite setba...
Rome had twelve masters between the years A.D. 180-238, eleven of whom were murdered or killed in ba...
Marcus Junius Brutus (BREW-tuhs) came from noble stock. His reputed paternal ancestor, Lucius Junius...
In the 9th and 11th Philippic Cicero strives to give a heroic character to the death of Ser. Sulpici...
Lepidus surrendered to Octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of ...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
Lucius and his army were spared because of his kinship with Antony, the strongman of the East, while...
The end of the Roman Republic was affected by decades of civil war, leaving the Roman population des...
On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman stat...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the a...
Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria, when Julius Caesar was...
While one camp of historians have followed the words of Cassias Dio, that Trajan began the war to av...
Originally named Gaius Octavius, he was born into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebei...
The author begins his discussion of the problems associated with Marcus Antonius’s exercise of the o...
Octavian and Lepidus launched a joint operation against Sextus in Sicily in 36 BC.[94] Despite setba...
Rome had twelve masters between the years A.D. 180-238, eleven of whom were murdered or killed in ba...
Marcus Junius Brutus (BREW-tuhs) came from noble stock. His reputed paternal ancestor, Lucius Junius...
In the 9th and 11th Philippic Cicero strives to give a heroic character to the death of Ser. Sulpici...
Lepidus surrendered to Octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of ...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
Lucius and his army were spared because of his kinship with Antony, the strongman of the East, while...
The end of the Roman Republic was affected by decades of civil war, leaving the Roman population des...