Editing Mark Antony (section)

==Aftermath and legacy==

[[Cicero]]'s son, [[Cicero Minor]], announced Antony's death to the senate.<ref>Dio 51.19.4.</ref> Antony's honours were revoked and his statues removed,<ref>Plut. ''Ant.'' 49.4; Dio 51.19.3.</ref> but he was not subject to a complete ''[[damnatio memoriae]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Akert |first=Nick |title=Antony, Augustus, and Damnatio Memoriae |url=http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=discentesjournal |access-date=6 May 2017 |website=University of Pennsylvania |publisher=Discentes |archive-date=28 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228192656/http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=discentesjournal |url-status=live }}</ref> Cicero's son also made a decree that no member of the [[Antonii]] would ever bear the name [[Marcus (praenomen)|Marcus]] again.<ref>Plut. ''Ant.'' 49.4; Dio 51.19.4.</ref> "In this way Heaven entrusted the family of Cicero the final acts in the punishment of Antony."<ref>Plut. ''Ant.'' 49.4.</ref>

When Antony died, Octavian became uncontested ruler of Rome. In the following years, Octavian, who was known as [[Augustus]] after 27&nbsp;BC, managed to accumulate in his person all administrative, political, and military offices. When Augustus died in AD 14, his political powers passed to his adopted son [[Tiberius]]; the [[Roman Empire]] had begun.

The rise of Caesar and the subsequent civil war between his two most powerful adherents effectively ended the credibility of the Roman [[oligarchy]] as a governing power and ensured that all future power struggles would centre upon which one individual would achieve supreme control of the government, eliminating the senate and the former magisterial structure as important foci of power in these conflicts. Thus, in history, Antony appears as one of Caesar's main adherents, he and Octavian being the two men around whom power coalesced following the assassination of Caesar, and finally as one of the three men chiefly responsible for the demise of the [[Roman Republic|republic]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boatwright |first=Mary |title=The Romans From Village to Empire |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0199730575 |location=New York |pages=269–279}}</ref>