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sforzesco · 1 year ago

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Im curious if you see more parallels between Octavian and Mark Antony, and Brutus and Cassius, as both being brother in laws.

tbh, there's not a lot there for me to dig my teeth into. Octavian and Antony were brother in laws with Octavia as an intermediary, so functionally a marriage with three people to it, while Cassius did not need to use Brutus' sister specifically as a go between them

the Horrible Family Dynamic that compels me with Octavian and Mark Antony is that step father in law kind of situation going on when Octavian was married to Claudia (while Antony was married to Fulvia) and then later Agrippa's marriage to Octavian's daughter. like. instead of the horizontal nature of in laws on a family tree, we're getting the vertical nature of something that makes me go Huh™

#like roman political families are already insular but the augustan age and empire really make it incestual #ask tag #also a lot of my attention for antony and octavian have very little to do with history and a lot to do with whatever hbo rome was doing #when they decided to make octavian a masochist by implication of antony trying to strangle him #and also. the french musical.#their historical counterparts are both. ehgh. i have yet to make it through a full biography on antony OR octavian #there is a new antony biography that just came out like. a few weeks ago. ALAS. i do not have access to it. it sounds really interesting #tho. and finally focused on something thematically i could bite into. maybe that bio will make antony intriguing to me

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