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Julius Caesar carried out reforms which helped the poor. He was a popularis. The populares were a political faction which championed the cause of the poor and wanted to reforms which helped the poor. They had been opposed by the optimates, a conservative political faction which favoured the aristocracy and opposed the reforms. He also donated money to the poor. He was the hero of the people.
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Who wrote Lives from which Julius Caesar is taken?
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Where did William shakespeare get his information for Julius Caesar?
From a book called Plutarch's Lives.
Where did shakespeare get info for his play Julius Caesar?
From a book called Plutarch's Lives.
Who did shakespeare gather material from for the play Julius Caesar?
His main source was Plutarch's Lives.
What is the play Julius Caesar based on?
Historical fact, as outlined in the book Plutarch's Lives.
Where did shakespeare's get most of his information for writing the tragedy of Julius Caesar?
From a book called Plutarch's Lives
Did Julius Caesar win any awards?
Julius Caesar was awarded the civic crown. It awarded to soldiers who saved the lives of fellow Roman soldier an enemy on a spot held by the enemy that same day.
First to stab Caesar?
By "the book Julius Caesar" I assume you mean Plutarch's Life of Caesar, one of his Parallel Lives, sometimes just called "Plutarch's Lives". (This is opposed to the PLAY Julius Caesar, written by Shakespeare, using Plutarch as a source.) In Plutarch, the first blow is struck by Casca, who stabbed Caesar in the neck, but neither mortally nor deeply.
Julius Caesar is compared to a serpent's egg?
Yes, Marcus Brutus compares Julius Caesar to a serpent's egg which when hatches results in the existence of the poisonous serpent which if grows to its kind, becomes dangerous. Similarly, Julius Caesar, if bestowed with the crown, would become so powerful as to endanger the peaceful lives of the Romans.
What did Shakespeare read that inspired him to write Julius Caesar?
He got the story from Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks and Romans.
Who said you came to bury Caesar?
"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 ..." - Mark Antony (from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)
What is the the quote from Julius Caesar that begins the evil that men do?
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." But I think it's not a quote by Caesar, it's part of Mark Anthony's speech at Caesar's funeral.
