Octavia vs. Cleopatra

Octavia vs. Cleopatra

Introduction

The two people I am selecting for comparison and contrasting are Cleopatra and Octavia. Octavia the Younger or Octavia Minor was the fourth wife of Mark Antony and sister of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. Her links to the great families continue when she became the great grandmother of Empress Agrippina the Younger and Emperor Caligula, also the mother in law of the Emperor Tiberius. She is famous worldwide for being admired and respected by her contemporaries for being her humanity, loyalty and nobility. Also she is known far and wide as a perfect example of the ...