Young Caesar vs Marc Antony
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What happened after the Ides of March? How did the Romans go from co-ordinated assassinations to the Pax Romana? From Tyranny to prosperity? In this third episode of our Ides of March series, Tristan is joined by Dr Hannah Cornwell to discuss the turbulent relations that erupted between Marc Antony and Octavian (Young Caesar), following Julius Caesar's assassination. Secluded meetings, arranged marriages, reconciliations, dissensions, and a love affair for the ages - what really happened between the Young Caesar and Marc Antony?
If you'd like to learn more about this really interesting period, you might like to listen to one of our following episodes:
Death of the Roman Republic: The Battles of Philippi, with Steele Brand - Octavian and Marc Antony vs Marcus Brutus and Cassius
Cicero's Fight for the Roman Republic, with Steele Brand - Octavian vs Marc Antony in northern Italy at Mutina
Agrippa: Rome's Forgotten Hero, with Lindsay Powell - Agrippa and Octavian in the 30s BC.
The Birth of the Roman Empire, with Dr Hannah Cornwell - Augustus and peace at the dawn of the Imperial Period post Marc Antony.
Augustus and Agrippa: The Golden Age, with Lindsay Powell - What followed Marc Antony's defeat at Actium.
As for Actium itself, and the demise of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, we aim to cover all in detail in a future podcast episode.
A quick note from Hannah, Caligula was assassinated in 41 AD / CE.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we are continuing our extremely |
| 0:21.1 | popular I'd-of-March mini-series. |
| 0:23.9 | This March, our first episode, we had the assassination of GDC's at that explainer, |
| 0:29.0 | we followed it up last weekend with Steelbrand coming back on the podcast to talk all about |
| 0:33.6 | the rise and fall of Caesar's most well-known, shall we say, most infamous assassin Marcus |
| 0:39.1 | Jr. sprutus and today for the penultimate episode in our series. |
| 0:43.7 | We're going to be talking about the early turbulent years, the relations, the hostile |
| 0:48.7 | relations, shall we say, the topsy-turvy relations that existed between Mark Antony and Octavian, |
| 0:55.6 | the young Caesar in the immediate years that followed Caesar's assassination. |
| 1:00.2 | Now to talk through all of this, I would like to get back on the podcast Dr. Hannah Cornwell |
| 1:05.3 | from the University of Birmingham. |
| 1:07.0 | Hannah, she's a bit of an ancient star at the moment because her previous podcast on |
| 1:11.2 | the ancient, which was the birth of the Roman Empire, is currently our most popular ancient |
| 1:16.2 | podcast ever. |
| 1:17.9 | In that one she focused in on how Octavian, who later became Augustus, when he was Emperor, |
| 1:23.4 | he monopolized this idea of peace. |
| 1:26.1 | With Hannah, one of her strong points really is peace in the late republic and the early |
| 1:30.8 | imperial period, so he really wants to dive into that area and it is really interesting |
| 1:35.1 | when you focus in on these huge figures like Mark Antony and Octavian, the young Caesar. |
| 1:41.6 | So without further ado to talk all about Mark Antony versus the young Caesar in the immediate |
| 1:46.8 | years following Caesar's assassination, here's Hannah. |
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