SUET triumviral period + civil war

• Fought in “five civil conflicts”
• Not benevolent

  • “Mark Antony sued for peace, but Augustus drove him to commit suicide”
  • “Wishing to preserve Cleopatra’s life, so she might adorn his triumph”
  • “Marcus Antonius the Younger… was torn from the statue of the God Julius, to which he had fled after futile pleas for mercy, and murdered”
• But benevolent as he allows Ant + Cleo an "honourable burial in the one tomb"
• "The gates of the temple of Janus Quirinus were closed” “only been closed twice before his day”
• Octavian immoral

  • “Charge of effeminacy”
  • “He was given to adulterous behaviour”
  • “She’s my ‘wife’ …or whom you pleasure?’” - Ant chastises Oct for his hypocrisy as he engages in extramarital affairs
• Twelve Gods Feast

  • Augustus dressed as Apollo
  • "Impious Caesar"
  • Next day, people shouting that "the gods had eaten the grain"