Cementing Alliances Just by the Fact of Who You're Married

She is advocating for her husband Mark Antony. She's doing very similar things to what his previous wife, Fulvia, did. But she absolutely gets a gloss put on what she does because she's Octavian's sister. Or as Fulvia was seen as a manipulator, scheming behind the scenes.Octavia seems quite active in it. A Roman woman can't have official power but when people talk about the power behind the throne, she's exerting that.