La falsificación del testimonio de Marco Antonio y su pietas
- Mikel Labiano Ilundain (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Ediciones Clásicas
ISBN: 978-84-7882-841-8
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 97-110
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
In the year 32 BC Octavian read in the Senate and in the Assembly the will that MarkAntony had deposited in the temple of Vesta. The matter caused a great scandal because ofthe illegality and sacrilege committed by Octavian to take over the will and its contents impacted so much on Rome that the plebs supported Octavian's cause. The Greek-Latinsources that collect the contents of the will and the hypotheses about the falsification or al-teration of the document by Octavian are analyzed. Finally, it reviews the content and concludes that its most scandalous parts were an Octavian manipulation to attack MarkAntony´s pietas.