WI: Both Cassius and Octavian Die at Philippi?

So I was thinking of changing something in my "Is Rome Worth One Good Man's Life TL" and would like to know the consequences. What if, both Cassius and Octavian die at Philippi? I had a small scenario in my head that I've been messing around with. Tell me if it's plausible or not please.

Octavian is killed in his tent when Brutus's army overruns his (IOTL he was not in the tent and hiding somewhere else when they reached it). Cassius is semi-defeated as per OTL and commits suicide thinking the same thing happened to Brutus-again, as per OTL.

Antony defeats Brutus at the second battle of Philippi.

Now here's where I need to check the plausibility:

Antony returns to Rome to celebrate a triumph. He then proceeds to focus his attention on Sextus Pompeius. Using Agrippa (or would he use someone else?) like Octavian, he tries to defeat Pompeius at sea, but is soundly defeated. A meeting for a treaty is agreed upon, as per OTL. But with a twist-Pompeius is offered up the spot of being a triumvir (and possibly Agrippa replaces Lepidus though I don't know how realistic that is). This allows Antonius to focus on the east as he wanted to, and more importantly, Parthia.

It would fit Antony's personality IMHO. What do you guys think?
 
Without Octavius around, what will happen to Egypt? Especially now that Cleopatra won't have to worry about having to commit suicide should she and Antony lose a war against Octavius if he was still alive.
 
Without Octavius around, what will happen to Egypt? Especially now that Cleopatra won't have to worry about having to commit suicide should she and Antony lose a war against Octavius if he was still alive.

I was toying with the idea of Arsinoe IV winning over Antony and Antony disposing of Cleopatra for Arsinoe IV.

Or Antony still going with Cleopatra. Though in what I'm trying to do, Pompeius is kind of replacing Octavian in a way.
 
So I was thinking of changing something in my "Is Rome Worth One Good Man's Life TL" and would like to know the consequences. What if, both Cassius and Octavian die at Philippi? I had a small scenario in my head that I've been messing around with. Tell me if it's plausible or not please.

Octavian is killed in his tent when Brutus's army overruns his (IOTL he was not in the tent and hiding somewhere else when they reached it). Cassius is semi-defeated as per OTL and commits suicide thinking the same thing happened to Brutus-again, as per OTL.

Antony defeats Brutus at the second battle of Philippi.

Now here's where I need to check the plausibility:

Antony returns to Rome to celebrate a triumph. He then proceeds to focus his attention on Sextus Pompeius. Using Agrippa (or would he use someone else?) like Octavian, he tries to defeat Pompeius at sea, but is soundly defeated. A meeting for a treaty is agreed upon, as per OTL. But with a twist-Pompeius is offered up the spot of being a triumvir (and possibly Agrippa replaces Lepidus though I don't know how realistic that is). This allows Antonius to focus on the east as he wanted to, and more importantly, Parthia.

It would fit Antony's personality IMHO. What do you guys think?

In absolutely no way does Anthony return to Rome to celebrate a triumph. It would have been stupid and nobody was stupid enough to make such an enormous mistake.

Every victorious roman commander knew he absolutely needed to make its settlement in the east before returning to Rome and Italy.

Pompey did it in 64/62.
Caesar did it in 48/47.
Anthony did it in 42/41.
Octavian did it in 30/29.

And in a different, reverse way Sulla and Cassius and Cassius did it. Sulla settled fought Mithridates and made some kind of settlement in the east in order to reestablis his situation in Rome thanks to the riches of the east.

So did Cassius and Brutus in order to finance their army and war effort against the caesarians.

The east was by far the richest area of the euro-mediterranean world.

These leaders could not take the risk not to establish a strong personal control on the rulers and on the riches of the east.

Especially Egypt. In the republican las decades, the roman leaders had all turned around Egypt and everybody blocked anybody from taking control of Egypt because they all knew Egypt was so rich that the one who took control of Egypt would become too powerful to handle.
That's why Caesar and Octavian made Egypt their personal possession, not transofrming it into a province (which would have been governed by aristocratic proconsuls)

If Anthony emerges as the sole alive winner of the civil war, then we are close to the end of the civil war. Anthony at the time controled Gauls (no war of Perusia, si no accidental loss of Gauul through death by illness of the anthonian commander in Gaul) as well as the east.

You can imagine, as in our real TL that, after Fulvia's death in 41, Anthony is going to marry Octavia in order to take full control of the caesarian party by attaching his future children to the caesarian bloodline and marrying to the full sister of his dead young partner in the triumvirate.
 
In absolutely no way does Anthony return to Rome to celebrate a triumph. It would have been stupid and nobody was stupid enough to make such an enormous mistake.

Every victorious roman commander knew he absolutely needed to make its settlement in the east before returning to Rome and Italy.

Pompey did it in 64/62.
Caesar did it in 48/47.
Anthony did it in 42/41.
Octavian did it in 30/29.

And in a different, reverse way Sulla and Cassius and Cassius did it. Sulla settled fought Mithridates and made some kind of settlement in the east in order to reestablis his situation in Rome thanks to the riches of the east.

So did Cassius and Brutus in order to finance their army and war effort against the caesarians.

The east was by far the richest area of the euro-mediterranean world.

These leaders could not take the risk not to establish a strong personal control on the rulers and on the riches of the east.

Especially Egypt. In the republican las decades, the roman leaders had all turned around Egypt and everybody blocked anybody from taking control of Egypt because they all knew Egypt was so rich that the one who took control of Egypt would become too powerful to handle.
That's why Caesar and Octavian made Egypt their personal possession, not transofrming it into a province (which would have been governed by aristocratic proconsuls)

If Anthony emerges as the sole alive winner of the civil war, then we are close to the end of the civil war. Anthony at the time controled Gauls (no war of Perusia, si no accidental loss of Gauul through death by illness of the anthonian commander in Gaul) as well as the east.

You can imagine, as in our real TL that, after Fulvia's death in 41, Anthony is going to marry Octavia in order to take full control of the caesarian party by attaching his future children to the caesarian bloodline and marrying to the full sister of his dead young partner in the triumvirate.

Yeah, you are completely right about the triumph in Rome. My mistake.

Do you have an more info on the war of Perusia?

And what do you think about Antony signing on to a new triumvirate with Pompeius so he can focus on the east?
 
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