The Civil Wars in Rome. Volume V.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 23250 |
| Format | 13.5 x 21 |
| Détails | 314 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251451152 |
The triumvirs had defeated the Republicans at Philippi, but the civil wars still had five good years ahead of them. From now on, Antony and Octavian had to keep the promises they had made to the soldiers: Antony took charge of the money by pressuring the Eastern provinces; for the lands in Italy, Octavian expropriated their occupants, and the whole country was in turmoil. Lucius, consul and also Antony's brother, then tried to reestablish the Republic, but the enterprise quickly ended with his defeat at Perugia. Another threat came from Sextus Pompey, who still controlled Sicily and maritime traffic: Rome was starving. When Antony, worried, leaves the arms of Cleopatra to return to Italy, his officers and those of Octavian have great difficulty in stopping the war that is beginning between them... Thus opens the fifth book of the Civil Wars, a book of twists and turns, where discord, reconciliations, defections, agreements quickly broken, riots, storms and mutinies punctuate the confused period when the Republic ends its long agony. Appian ends his story with the death of Sextus Pompey, considering that with him the Republic, too, is truly dead; the historian reserves for his Egyptian Book (which has not come down to us) the final struggle between Antony and Octavian, a story of another nature, that of the confrontation between two pretenders to the monarchy.
The triumvirs had defeated the Republicans at Philippi, but the civil wars still had five good years ahead of them. From now on, Antony and Octavian had to keep the promises they had made to the soldiers: Antony took charge of the money by pressuring the Eastern provinces; for the lands in Italy, Octavian expropriated their occupants, and the whole country was in turmoil. Lucius, consul and also Antony's brother, then tried to reestablish the Republic, but the enterprise quickly ended with his defeat at Perugia. Another threat came from Sextus Pompey, who still controlled Sicily and maritime traffic: Rome was starving. When Antony, worried, leaves the arms of Cleopatra to return to Italy, his officers and those of Octavian have great difficulty in stopping the war that is beginning between them... Thus opens the fifth book of the Civil Wars, a book of twists and turns, where discord, reconciliations, defections, agreements quickly broken, riots, storms and mutinies punctuate the confused period when the Republic ends its long agony. Appian ends his story with the death of Sextus Pompey, considering that with him the Republic, too, is truly dead; the historian reserves for his Egyptian Book (which has not come down to us) the final struggle between Antony and Octavian, a story of another nature, that of the confrontation between two pretenders to the monarchy.