The leader and triumvirate of the Roman soldiers and of the state, the eldest son of Antonius Creticus and Marcus Antonius, the orators of the Romans. Having succeeded Gabinius in Syria (57), Caesar, whom his mother had mentioned in Gaul, became one of his most faithful and supporters. On his election to the quaestorship of 51 B.C., served in this office also under Caesar. Returning to Rome in 50 B.C., he was elected tribune.
The tribune Pompey used great intercession, from the senate, to move Julius Caesar the government. army. Antony, against the senate, ordered him to flee from Rome. He joins Caesar in January 49 B.C., when the leader made the famous crossing of the Rubicon to invade Italy.
Antony defended the authority of the senate against Caesar’s attempts to restrain him, and in defiance of it he was expelled from the senate, and took Caesar back to Italy. After the war between Caesar and Pompey, Antony commanded the armies in Italy and Greece. The battle of Pharsalus helped to defeat Pompey and to strengthen Caesar’s rule. He and Caesar were consuls together in 44 B.C.
When Julius Caesar was killed in the Senate in March 44 B.C., he gave a funeral to Mark Antony Cassius and Marcus Brutus, the leaders of the conspiracy – have fled from the camps.
Antony continues his faith, opposing Cicero, and meets his rival Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus).
But Antonius soon became suspicious. This second dictator, he regretted that he had not been killed with Caesar. Cicero led the orator against Antony and persuaded Caesar’s heir, Octavianus, who was later called Augustus, to join the war with Antony in Cisalpine Gaul.
Antony was defeated at the Battle of Mutina in 43 B.C., but soon after he and Octavian joined forces. With M. Aemilius Lepidus the second Triumvirate, which held the empire of Rome for ten years: Gaul to Antony, Spain to Lepidus and Africa, Sardinia and Sicily to Octavian. The suppression of the impudent conspirators followed, lest Cicero should escape, and in 42 B.C. the republic and the senate were shot.
Before dividing the borders of the republic between them, the triumvirs killed their enemies. Among his victims was Cicero. Then they prepared war against Brutus and Cassius, who had raised an army in the eastern provinces. In 42 B.C. At Philippi, in northern Greece, different factions met. Defeated in two battles, Brutus and Cassius perished themselves, and the rule of the triumvirate of Rome was established. After the battles Antony remained in the East. Cleopatra met and wintered between the years 41 and 40 B.C. with her in Egypt.
In 40 B.C., the partnership with Octavian was renewed by the Treaty of Brundisium, which gave the eastern provinces of the empire to Antony, the western provinces to Octavian, and the African provinces to Lepidus. Antony was in Greece until 37, when another breach with Octavian was taken care of by the Treaty of Tarentum, which extended the rule of the triumvirate for 5 years.
But in the following year, what little harmony had remained within the triumvirate began to fall apart. Antony’s army was terrified of the Parthians, and especially the Romans were terrified by the familiarity of Cleopatra, and further by Octavian, whose fall of the marauders Sex. When Octavian forced Lepidus out of the government, the mutual suspicion between Antony and Octavian flared up into open hostility.
M. Antonius had brought war against his brother L. Antonius, Octavianus; but being again reconciled with them, he married his sister Octavia. Anthony returned to the East in 39, visiting Italy again in 37 with a renewed triumvirate.
After further difficulties between Antony and Octavian, Octavia was released and returned to Italy, Antony summoned Cleopatra to him in Syria. This fact was partially justified politically, since the kingdom of Egypt was a very valuable thing.
After his triumphal campaign in Armenia, he alienated many of his own people by preparing for Alexandria, as in Romanpowers and war took Egypt.
The turning of the war was when Antony’s forces were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle at Actia in 31 B.C. Antony and Cleopatra’s fleet annihilated at Actium in 31 B.C. and in the following year Octavian went to Alexandria.
He was preparing to defend Alexandria, but being deserted by a large number, Octavian approached the city. Octavian refused his offer to fight in hand-to-hand combat. M. Antonius killed himself, believing that Cleopatra had already made him aware of her death;
Marcus Antonius, the elder son of Mark Antony, was killed by Octavian after his father’s suicide in 30 B.C.
The death of Antony gave the Roman Empire to Octavian, who soon became Augustus, the first ruler of Rome.
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