After Caesar's death he formed an alliance with Octavius and Lepidus to govern Rome as a triumvirate. ... After the assassination, he flees to Rome and, with Cassius, raises an army against the triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar and Lepidus. ... Mark Antony, Caesar's only true friend, offers Caesar the crown, but he refuses it. ... Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, has been having nightmares about Caesar's death. ... When he first walks into Caesar's house, he says: "Good morrow, worthy Caesar" (II, ii). ...

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Shakespeare even invents actions by Octavius Caesar in order to increase our sympathy for the lovers. ... He only ever cried when Julius Caesar died, and he is the greatest soldier that Octavius Caesar knows. ... The fact that Antony spends much of his time in Egypt causes Octavius Caesar to worry that he is becoming effeminate. ...

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Julius Caesar, his uncle, sent him to study in Apollonia. After Caesar's assassination, Augustus was uncertain about accepting his inheritance, but, nonetheless, he did with the purpose of avenging his uncle's death. At the age of nineteen, he joined the Consulship of Gaius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius in 43 B.C., Augustus, previously known as Octavius, allowed the Senate to use his family name Caesar to gain the confidence of the soldiers and people. After making a deal with Antony, they both joined forces with Marcus Amemilius Lepidus, who was the governor of Gallia Narbonensis and ...

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