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Question 23

What development most directly worsened relations between Antony and Octavian in the years before Actium?

  1. Antony's refusal to take part in any further military campaigns
  2. Antony's alliance with Cleopatra and his grants of eastern territory to her childrenCorrect answer
  3. Octavian's marriage to Antony's sister Octavia
  4. Lepidus's continued control over Africa

Explanation

Antony's personal and political alliance with Cleopatra, culminating in his distributing eastern lands and titles to her children, alarmed Roman opinion and gave Octavian a propaganda weapon against him. Octavian's marriage to Octavia had actually been arranged to smooth relations between the two men, and Antony's military activity and Lepidus's earlier position in Africa were not the direct trigger of the late breakdown.

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