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Young Caesar vs Marc Antony

The Ancients

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Is There a Line in the Sand?

It's difficult to come back from antony's effectily rejection of the marriage. He sends octav back to italy, so effectively divorcing her. Although she is held up as the model of roman womanhood. This again, enables young caesar to make a massive show of how virtuous his sister is and how terrible ears b yes, effectively this seems to be, as you say, a line in the sand from which there is no coming back from. But yes, it's sad of the effectiveness of marriage alliance that, as we prove, was used between caesar and pompey.

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