markantonys:3 generations of antonii + the lovers they committed treason withmark antony rose to pow
markantonys:3 generations of antonii + the lovers they committed treason withmark antony rose to power after the death of julius caesar and allied himself with queen cleopatra vii of egypt; the two soon became lovers, which scandalized rome. antony’s rival, octavian, used his affair with cleopatra as proof that he was a slave to egypt and a traitor to rome. octavian defeated antony and cleopatra in the civil war, and they both committed suicide in 30 BCE. octavian would soon become known as augustus, the first emperor of rome.iullus antonius, the son of mark antony and fulvia, was involved in a scandal with augustus’s daughter julia and several other elite men in 2 BCE. ostensibly their crime was adultery, but both ancient writers and modern scholars have speculated that there was some degree of political conspiracy to the group’s activities. iullus was put to death and julia was sent into exile, where she died in 14 CE of unknown causes, perhaps starvation.livilla, the daughter of drusus and antonia minor and therefore the granddaughter of mark antony, was married to emperor tiberius’s son drusus the younger, whom she allegedly poisoned with the help of her lover, the ambitious praetorian prefect lucius aelius sejanus. in 31 CE tiberius had sejanus arrested for plotting to overthrow him. sejanus was strangled and his body thrown down the gemonian steps, and shortly afterwards livilla either committed suicide or was starved to death by her mother. -- source link
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