TRANSLATION
LEGACY OF CAESAR: THE CLASH BETWEEN ANTONY AND OCTAVIUS
On 20 March in  44 B.C.  the solemn funeral of Caesar are celebrated. The figure of Antony, liutenant (right arm in military campaigns) Caesar: law  to the crowd the will of the dictator, who gives the people the Janiculum gardens and three hundred gold (coins) for each commoner. With a theatrical gesture shows the bloody robe of Caesar to the crowd, c ausing a popular uprising: the houses of the Assassination of Julius Caesar - (Brutus, Cassius and other conspirators) and their houses are attacked, forcing them to flee.
The day of the funeral, a young man barely ninteen (Octavius) collect the inheritance. It presents as a son of Gaius Octavius and a niece of Caesar (it was adopted by Caesar himself) bears the name of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian.
Collecting now the favor of the army veterans and senators, while Antony, who aspires to turn to the role of successor, the judges a rival and try to hinder it. The two arrive to arms, facing each other in Modena: Octavius wins the victory and march on Rome to be proclaming consul.
It became consul in 43 B.C. Octavian announced revenge against the assassination of Julius Caesar and sides with Antony. Along with Lepidus, (commander of the cavalry of Caesar) conclude the second triumvirate, Unlike the first triumvirate, it is a public and official agreement for a period of five years, by which you divide control of the provinces. To further establish their union, Antony married the sister of Octavius, Octavia, while Lepidus is established in Spain, Octavius and Antony marched against the assassination of Julius Caesar, who organize in Greece extreme resistance.
In Macedonia, at Philippi, it takes place the final battle: the defeat for Brutus and Cassius, who take their own lives.
Octavius back quickly in Italy, where he fights for a long time against Sextus Pompey, son of the great Pompey, who practices piracy in the Mediterranean. The Senate celebrates it as a restorer of peace in the seas. After the victory of Philippi, Antony has appropriated the province of the East, where he had the opportunity to meet Cleopatra. Falls in love with her, repudiates Ottavia and married Cleopatra in cerimony in Alexandria, sitting on a golden throne with the typical costumes of the eastern monarchs, revered as gods by their subjects.
Cleopatra is an obstacle for Antony. All that deeply shocked the Romans, to the benefit of Octavius, who unleast a smear campaign agianst his rival:
•	Octavius has at heart th interests of Rome, while Antony has lots his mind and may transfer the capital in Egypt
•	Octavian claims to represent the true values of the res publica: honesty, sobriety, austerity, while Antony lives in luxury and softness in the eastern
•	Octavian wants to defend the istitutions and the traditional religion, while Antony aspires to be worshiped as a god
•	Octavian is a roman man, Antony instead is maneuvered by a woman, Cleopatra, immoral and corrupt, who laid on him a course to seduce him
The decisive battle was in 31 B.C. at Actium, on the western coast of Greece. Antony and Cleopatra have a higher number of men and ships, but Agrippa, Admiral of Octavians's fleet manages to capture their supplies. Rather than fall into the hands of Octavian, the couple decides to fleet to Egypt, and to commit suicide. According to tradition, Cleopatra, do you bite the breast from an asp (other than by a cobra, considered sacred snake) hidden in a fruit basket. Octavian won. When returned to Rome, a new era begins.