Quiz 2

Question 1

44 BCE (5 things)

Answer 1

1: Caesar dies.
2: Senate establishes that Caesar’s murderers would receive amnesty.
3: Caesar’s acts and will were to be respected and his funeral was to be celebrated
4: Caesar’s will establishes Octavian as his chief heir.
5: Octavian returns to Rome

Question 2

43 BCE (6 things)

Answer 2

1: Cicero attacks Antony in series of speeches
2: Antony is defeated by Octavian and two consuls die in battle
3: Antony is declared a public enemy
4: Senate refuses consulship to Octavian, who marches on Rome and is elected consul suffectus
5: Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus form second Triumvirate, which was legally appointed unlike the first one.
6: They carry out a ruthless proscription in which 300 senators and 2000 knights die, including Cicero.

Question 3

42 BCE (three things)

Answer 3

1: Julius Caesar is names a god, Octavian becomes divi filius
2: Octavian and Antony march against Brutus and Cassius and defeat them at Philippi

Question 4

41/40 BCE

Answer 4

Siege of Perusia. Antony’s wife and Antonius surrender to Octavian

Question 5

40 BCE

Answer 5

Treaty of Brundisium: Two parties are reconciled, and Antony marries Octavia

Question 6

37 BCE

Answer 6

Conference of Tarentum