The Triumphs of Octavian

The high light of the year was the celebration of three triumphs in octavian's honor, one each for his victories in lyricum, alexandria and an actium. For these latter two events, octavian forced cleopatra's children to parade through the streets of rome in chains. Conspicuously absent, though, was 15-year-old cesarian, as the one real threat toOctavian's claim on the caesar name. There was no way octavian was going to let young caesarian make it out of alexandrian alive. The rest of the children were handed over to octavia to care for, and