The Closing Engagement Of The Liberator's Civil War

The battle of the Philippi was the closing engagement of the Liberators' civil war. This war was fought between the second triumvirate and the liberators. The liberators were led by the main conspirators in the plan and killing of Julius Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. The second triumvirate was the side loyal to Caesar and wated to avenge his death,led by Mark Antony and Octavian. This battle took place in 42 BC at Philippi in Macedonia. In the years before, Caesar had been proclaimed Dictator for life. Senators became worried at the idea of so much power being concentrated on one man, the senators also disliked how popular Caesar was and his arrogance. On the 15th of March 44BC, upwards of 60 conspirators and senators

After these battles, Anton was held to a much higher level than Octavian, being labeled Imperator, whereas Octavian was seen, and said by Plutarch, as not having done anything worth relaying. Mark Antony's military skills and Octavian's political skills would go head to head in the war of Actium. Resentment and suspicion had been building between the two men who had ruled different regions of the Roman republic. This would come to head in the war of Actium, which would be known as the last civil war of the Roman republic. Antony, supported by some of Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt and Cleopatra, fought against Octavian's Roman forces. Mark Antony was defeated at the battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BCE. This would be the final domino in the fall of the Roman republic. Octavian, now Augustus, was granted extraordinary powers by the senate in 27 BC, which effectively made him the first Roman emperor, thus ending the Republic. The assassination of Caesar had such long-term effects and significance that no one could have predicted, leading to wars for years to come and to the formation of an empire and an emperor, ironically, what the assassins were attempting to