War of Mutina
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The War of Mutina was a civil war between the Roman Senate and Mark Antony in Northern Italy. It was the first civil war after the assassination of Julius Caesar. The main issue of the war was attempt
Aurei depicting Mark Antony and Octavian, minted 41 BC, after the events of the war and during the triumviral period.
1st century AD bust of Cicero.
Second Triumvirate
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The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created at the end of the Roman republic for Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian to give them practically absolute power. It was fo
War of Mutina
…Caesar's killers before starting negotiations with Antony. The negotiations resulted in the two men reconciling. With Lepidus, they then formed the Second Triumvirate. A group of senators, calling themselves the liberatores and led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC at a meeting of…
A 19th century depiction by Jean-Léon Gérôme of Caesar's corpse and the assassins' celebration.
Fragments of the laudatio Turiae, a eulogy for an upper class Roman wife, the latter of whom rescued her husband during the triumviral proscriptions, dated to the last decade of the 1st century BC
Coin, minted by Marcus Junius Brutus in 42 BC, depicting himself on left and commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March on right.
Coin depicting Lucius Antonius.