senators‚ the soldiers and the Rome itself. But what had happened to him? Who is Julius Caesar‚ on the first place? What did he do? CHARACTERS: * Julius Caesar * Pompey * Julia * Cornelia * Marcus Brutus * Antony * Cassius * Octavius * Casca * Calpurnia * Portia * Flavius * Cicero * Lepidus * Murellus
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and after changing his name to Augustus legitimately achieved these positions. So how did he do it? Octavian’s entrance into politics‚ his campaigns against the republicans and Mark Antony will all be discussed in this essay. On the 15th March 44BC Brutus‚ Cassius and approximately 50 other senators murdered Julius Caesar by stabbing him to death. The motive of the murdering was to restore the Republic from the autocratic rule of Julius Caesar. Octavian did not learn that he was Caesar’s adopted heir
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denarii w. own $ & hosts games (comet = soul of Caesar) - Puts army together & gets imperium to defeat Ant in Gaul > Decimus Brutus given triumph Second Triumvirate and Civil War - Joins Ant works & Lepidus where interests lie (triumvirate) power of dictator‚ against Republicans - Senate & Cicero reject demands for consulship‚ Oct seizes control; prepares for war (against assasins: Brutus & Cassius) - Proscriptions – Cicero > escapees joined Pompieus - Battle of Phillipi: Reps defeated- triumvirs
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The passage (http://www.forumromanum.org/history/morey22.html) is from William C. Morey’s history text Outlines of Roman History. The outline examines the rise and fall of Antony and Octavius following Julius Caesar’s death. Review this information as well as your notes from class carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the power struggle in Rome. Between the approximate times of 44 BC and 29 BC Rome went through a rather extravagant change of management following the assassination of
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inherited from Greek colonists of the 8th century BC.[9] Livy dates the earliest Roman gladiator games to 264 BC‚ in the early stages of Rome’s First Punic War against Carthage. Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva had three gladiator pairs fight to the death in Rome’s "cattle market" Forum (Forum Boarium) to honor his dead father‚ Brutus Pera. This is described as a munus (plural: munera)‚ a commemorative duty owed the manes of a dead ancestor by his descendants.[10] The gladiator type used (according to a single
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The Second Triumvirate 43BC-36BC MAIN POINTS: 1. Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance 2. Octavian’s Temporary Collaboration with the republicans 3. Octavian’s first consulship 4. Octavian and Anthony join forces 5. Creation of the Second Triumvirate 6. Formation of a body to run the state 7. Beat the liberators 8. Then‚ divided the empire‚ Anthony the West and Octavian the East 9. However‚ tensions quickly arising Octavian attempts to secure
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"Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus were both former enemies...together‚ the two of them led the assassination of Caesar on the ’Ides of March’ (the 13th)‚ 44 BC." (Julius Caesar Biography) We don’t know the exact age or time he was assassinated‚ but we do know how and why he was killed. Gaius‚ Brutus‚ and many other Senators didn’t like Caesar as much as the others. They didn’t seem to enjoy the fact the Julius
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The Degeneration of Political Morality in Julius Caesar Friends‚ Romans‚ countrymen‚ lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar‚ not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. (Act III. Scene ii.74-78) Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare’s historical and political plays. The play is
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JULIUS CEASER Julius Caesar (play) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The ghost of Caesar taunts Brutus about his imminent defeat. (Copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven from a painting by Richard Westall: London‚ 1802.) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare‚ believed to have been written in 1599.[1] It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar‚ his assassination and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle
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University: The Jesuit Univesity of New York. 25 09 2011 http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.asp. Horne‚ Charle F‚ Cluade Herman and Walters Johns. Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: The Assassination of Julius Caesar‚ from Marcus Brutus (excerpts). 1910-1915. 25 09 2011 http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/plutarch-caesar.asp. Plutarch. Caesar by Plutarch Written 75 A.C.E. Translated by John Dryden. 1994. David C Stevenson. 24 09 2011 http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html
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