# Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace Date: 40 BC ## The fact In 40 BCE Antony married Octavia, sister of Octavian, as a public seal of the Brundisium peace. The dated marriage is not the later [Cleopatra](/people/cleopatra) political-military alliance and not Actium. [Mark Antony](/people/mark-antony)’s documented role is: He married Octavian’s sister Octavia after Brundisium. The house was a political instrument; later eastern marriage to Cleopatra is a different file. Do not twin this with the Cleopatra alliance row. 40 Italy is not 37 Egypt. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Mark Antony's documented role is: He married Octavian’s sister Octavia after Brundisium. The house was a political instrument; later eastern marriage to Cleopatra is a different file. ## Context A widow of Marcellus, two households of children, and later Athenian winters already sit in the file. A political marriage is not unique romance. Later playwrights are not this ceremony. Named others on the file: Octavia Minor, Octavian as brother-broker, and unnamed household officers share the marriage. The public setting is the file around -0040-10-15. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace. The setting of Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace is the public file around -0040-10-15. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and [Plutarch](/people/plutarch) independently date the Octavia marriage as a 40 dynastic instrument. Official: Britannica — Mark Antony, marriage to Octavia (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony and Octavia (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007; Perseus Digital Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Mark Antony, marriage to Octavia (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony and Octavia (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007; Perseus Digital Library). Official or archival record: Britannica — Mark Antony, marriage to Octavia (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving social-cohesion path: a public peace-marriage. Complex shared dynastic deal. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated dynastic marriage put a public sister-hostage-and-seal into the 40 settlement. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## What is established and what is not Established: 40 marriage to Octavia. Not established: that a later play is the ceremony. Established: a sourced public record of Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace under -0040-10-15. Established: a sourced public record of Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace under -0040-10-15. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the Cleopatra alliance row. 40 Italy is not 37 Egypt. Mixed effects of Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace are separate paths. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Shared responsibility is part of Antony marries Octavia as a public dynastic seal of the 40 BCE peace. Naming Mark Antony does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0040-10-15 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## People - Mark Antony: https://factrail.ai/people/mark-antony ## Drivers - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir - https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-octavia-marriage-40