Why couldn't Antony Win Over Octavian? - The Last Civil War - History of Rome - Part 9

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[Bradley]

The main reason was Agrippa. Was instrumental in helping octavian with rome itself as aedile, was instrumental against sextus pompey, the illyrians and was the mastermind behind Actium

[Idk-ysrt]

The Roman Empire, the fall of the Roman Republic and the war between Mark Anthony and Octavian and the establishment of the Roman Empire are very interesting imho.

[kaushalsorte]

While I get that it is convenient historically to call Caesar's heir as Octavian, it is worth noting that after the adoption of Gaius Octavius into the Caesar's death, his official name was Gaius Julius Caesar. That is what the men around him called him. Antony has famously uttered the following with respect to the young Caesar - " The boy who owes everything to his name." The boy used the name Julius Caesar very effectively to gather Caesarians to his cause.

[ArmenianBishop]

In 35 BC, the Armenian King (Artavasdes II) concluded that Antony was walking into a trap, after Antony's siege equipment was destroyed, so he retreated to save his men. Modern scholars reject Plutarch's assertion that Antony failed because of Artavasdes; Artavasdes II was just a scapegoat, the real reason was poor logistical planning.

[dhedgpeth]

Amazing work. I love the history telling and being paired with the animation it makes it even better. Look forward to the next video!

[bossofdeath]

Antony really couldn't get away from that Cleoussy.

[davidhughes]

After many years of an intense interest in and the study of Roman military history I must say that your video documentaries are very good.
I am impressed. Thank you for the hard work!!

[Uzair_Of_Babylon]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[lordsnow]

Give us series about Greeks from Minoans, Mycenaeans to Sparta, Athens and Macedonia and Alex the Great, war of diadochi and Seleucids... you get the point..

PS. Love Rome series ❤

[seansweeney]

Anthony was the glue .held them all together..

[crystalwaters]

You guys made Octavian so handsome 😍How accurate is that illustration?

[DanishCamp]

I've written a thesis on Marc Anthony and I just gotta say that this feels like a very rushed introduction will multiple misconceptions.
You failed to establish that Octavian wasn't heir as in hereditary ruler, but merely heir to the larger part of Caesar's coin.
However there were other minor heirs. For an example Anthony got his part as well and the wife of Caesar handed Anthony all of Caesar's legal papers.

Octavian was not adopted when Caesar died. This happened posthumly after his death and according to his will - eventhough noone had ever been adopted after the death of their adopter before in Roman history.
Octavian held no significant offices and Anthony was the clear ruler both in office as the co-consule of Caesar but also as leader of the caesarian faction.

So it is not true that Anthony didn't have any support left in the Senate. In fact he had the backing of most of the caesarian faction in the Senate.
Also it was actually Anthony who held enough political influence to broker a peacedeal with the liberators/killers of Caesar and continue peace in Rome for almost a year after Caesar's death.
Caesar's enemies accepted Anthony in part of their "democratic" and peaceful ideology, in part out of respect for Anthony (they made a deal not to kill Anthony, only Caesar) and finally because he quickly established himself as the ultimate power factor in terms of military.
Thus Anthony had not lost the backing of the Senate - a large part Senate even fled to Anthony when the triumvirate fell apart and Anthony and Octavian were at war.

It is however true that the liberators banded together to give chase to Anthony and aid decimus Brutus.
And here is the major point listen closely: It was the liberators aka Cicero who put Octavian in power, because he thought he could manipulate and control him to get rid of Cicero's biggest enemy and in his eyes largest power factor, namely Anthony.

Alas Cicero didn't know that Octavian was a master manipulator and would end up turning against him.
The only reason why Octavian gained influence among the military veterans of Caesar was that he called for vengeance - thus he has to follow this quest and betray Cicero.

In fact it was the moderate and cooporating style of Anthony that made some veterans choose Octavian over Anthony.

In order to not loose support of the veterans Anthony had to follow the path of vengeance against Caesar's murderers. Thus history happened.

Also all the propaganda about Anthony being immoral and disowning traditions were directly instigated by Octavian to gain support and turn the public and veterans of Rome against Anthony. While the veterans wouldn't fight Anthony maybe they would fight Cleopatra with Anthony as someone who had lost his wits because of this woman.

We must remember that Augustus was the Victor and he could therefore write history and everyone had to abide by the first emperor and so the sources are very biased towards Anthony replicating Augustan propaganda. Also Cicero wrote about Anthony as an enemy. Cassius Dio used Augustus as an ideal emperor to criticize later emperors and politicians. Thus we have to be aware as historians and not get lost in the bias of the sources. Appian and Caesar are perhaps better sources for Anthony as a person.

[mohammedsaysrashid]

A wonderful historical coverage video of the organization of imploding of Roman Empiren authoritative due the looms of civil wars (.Pragmatic and opportunities practiced) ....thank you ( Aknowledgia) channel for sharing

[Black_Pearl_Dream]

সম্পূর্ণ ভিডিও তে সুন্দর ভাবে ইতিহাস ব্যাখ্যা করা হয়েছে, এবং সর্বশেষে কাব্যিক বাক্য গুলো মন জোড়ানোর মত। ধন্যবাদ।

[ArmenianBishop]

In 20 BC, Augustus Caesar (also known as Octavius) reversed Antony's occupation of Armenia, and renewed that Kingdom's sovereignty and independence, despite its situation as a buffer state between the empires. From that, Augustus gets my respect.

[SeaDemon]

imagine the complete history of rome by Knowledgia with this animations

[jesperhjensen]

This channel and many others like it, are the one of the main reasons for the latest tiktok trend, women asking men in their lives "how much do you think about the Roman the video btw 1:41

[chairmanmeow]

Learning about Ancient Rome in A Levels. Augustus was so sick. Tiberius was my favourite though

[TheGeneralGrievous]

I remeber when I first leraned about this war as a kid. Before that I was aware of Julius Ceasar and his succeses, intrest in which was sparked by Asterix cartoons. I did not now what happened after his death. When I learned there was a war between son of his sister who he adopted against his general who got close with Cleopatra herself, and they had great battle at Actium this was such thrilling and exciting news for me fr as a kid.

[elkingoh]

Watching whole Roman history is more exciting than watching Anime😎