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Odysseus goes to hades because he was told to go see the blind prophet tiresias who would tell him what would happen and what to do.
This is one of history's mysteries. All the ancient writers say about this is that Antony received an erroneous message that Cleopatra was dead. Cleopatra herself either never sent the message or the message got misinterpreted. Something like, "Cleopatra is in her tomb", instead of "Cleopatra is hiding out in her tomb". Antony, hearing that she was in her tomb, would naturally assume that she were dead.
Odysseus traveled to the underworld so that he could talk to Thiresias who had been dead for several years. Thiresias was a great fore teller and could tell Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca.
Odysseus' mother Anticlea tells Odysseus of what is happening at his home, and how she died. She also tells Odysseus why she cannot embrace him; the state of dead people are all sinewy and wispy with little form.
Zeus did not tell stories, he was in them.
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Messala conveys to Brutus that a hundred senators have been put to death, Cicero being one and that Brutus' wife, Portia, was dead.
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Cassius insinuates to Brutus that if they lose, they will be captured or killed, but he does not tell him anything. Brutus is the person who tells Cassius what must be done. Act 5, Scene 1, Verses 107-140. See the related link.
titinius was actually not captured by Antony's army, it was actually brutus's armys there. when titinius goes back to Cassius to tell him, he finds Cassius dead. titinius then kills himself with the same sword the Cassius killed himself with.
Cassius has a lot of envy towards Caesar, he wants the power and wont let casar get it! so he manipulates brutus into thinking that Caesar is a tyrant and that hes going to abuse his power. brutus, being an idealist, believes Cassius and assassinates his friend, Caesar.
Cassius wants Brutus to join in a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. He tells Brutus stories of Caesar to poison his mind and make Brutus believe that Caesar wants to set himself up as a tyrant.
Cassius tells Brutus about the story about Caesar swimming the Tiber River because he wants to make Brutus understand that Caesar had flaws too, and he was just another simple human in the city of Rome. There was nothing special about him and people should stop looking at him as a god.
On the Plains of Philippi, Mark Antony's and Octavius' forces face Brutus' and Cassius' forces. The two sides insult each other, Mark Antony and Octavius then leaving with their army.Later in battle with Mark Antony and Octavius, Brutus sends orders via messenger Messala to Cassius' forces on the other side of the battlefield.Cassius' forces are losing ground to Mark Antony's forces. Brutus has defeated Octavius' forces but instead of reinforcing Cassius' forces, have instead sought out spoils or bounty from the field.
Because Antony had no intention of allowing Brutus and Cassius to get away with murdering Antony's friend Caesar, or with impeding Antony's desire to become as powerful a ruler as Caesar was. He didn't give a hoot what Cassius and Brutus told him to do; he agreed with them temporarily because they were a dozen dangerous men holding bloody knives, but had every intention of breaking his word the moment he could.
Cassius thinks Antony might convince the masses that Caesar was wronged instead of the conspirators helping to save them from Caesar's future power abuse