Philippi is a completed civil-war killing of the republican armies
Dated 42 BCE: Philippi is a completed civil-war killing of the republican armies. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
A civil-war battle as later told. Shared command. Mark Antony did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Mark Antony Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Mark Antony’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional 83–30 BCE. Proscriptions, Philippi, Actium, and Alexandrian death are later Plutarch/Appian/Dio.
Why it matters
A civil-war battle as later told. Shared command.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Mark Antony
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.44 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactPhilippi is a completed civil-war killing of the republican armies
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.6 · Effect from 42 BCE · verified
A civil-war battle as later told. Shared command.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.3 (weight 0.6 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Mark AntonyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Perseus — Plutarch, AntonyPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Mark Antony did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMark Antony
- contributed toFactPhilippi is a completed civil-war killing of the republican armies
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Philippi is a completed civil-war killing of the republican armies. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-philippi-killing
https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-philippi-killing
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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