Julius Caesar

As a man of letters, Julius Caesar was said to have written a play and some poetry. However his most famous writings were his Commentaries on the Gallic War.

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The question of Caesar being in love with Cleopatra, or her with him. Isn't as clear cut in ancient times as today. In fact, love was not a driving force in those time for those two to come together. When we think of love, we think of it in today's terms, emotional and committed, two people spending a life together. But in Ancient times with nobles such as those two, coming together is more a political a matter of fact. So the better question is, Were Caesar and Cleopatra political partners?, but not in love in the modern scents of the word. Caesar was the first man in Rome with an army, Cleopatra had a brother standing between her and the thrown. And they both needed each other, Caesar needed Egypt in the hands of someone he trusted. Cleopatra needed someone to help her to the thrown and keep her there. So the fact that the two came together isn't a manner of love, but a simple business decision. A decision that proved to be the right one. Until his death Caesar controlled Egypt's gold and wheat through Cleopatra. In fact the partnership was so good that Cleopatra used it again after Caesar's death. Anybody remember Marc Antony..

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No Julius Caesar did not invent the Caesar salad

all of the awards the senate could bestow upon him.

Argument means two things: a dispute, and a chain of reasoning. You can find an example of the former in the first scene of act one, and an example of the latter in Brutus's speech to the people.

It refers to the conspirators who planned to kill Caesar

The senators of rome stab him to death

Brutus means that at one time they were close but now there seem to be differences getting between them.

The common people thought Brutus as a traitor because as told by Antony, Brutus was the dear heart of Caesar whom he loved unconditionally, he was the best friend considered by Caesar, yet he stabbed Caesar and at that moment Caesar's blood rushed out to check whether Brutus, his beloved friend, had knocked so ungently. This picture presented by Antony moulded the people's feelings against Brutus and they considered him as a traitor.

Julius, Calpurnia, Brutus, and Cassius

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because Caesar was an evil mountain lion who was thought to kill climbers

They react emotionally to the last thing they heard and do not remember the second-to-last thing they heard. They do not react differently from the way people react to the news nowadays.

Shakespeare knew that it sometimes takes a while for an audience to settle down, so he liked to start his plays either with a bombshell like witches coming up out of the floor (Macbeth) or a storm at sea (Tempest), or alternatively with a light scene which does not involve the main characters as in Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. The relatively unimportant first scene can be missed by the patrons still negotiating with the orange girls without impairing their understanding of the whole play.

march 44 BC was the date that Julius Caesar was killed. However no ancient writer gives the time that he was killed. It can be assumed that he was murdered in the morning, as that's when the senate usually met.

Caesar's will gives people money

Cleopatra.

he said he would give everyone a banana

Some had personal grudges, but most were acting to save the republic from Caesar's dictatorship. Caesar had grown highhanded and arrogant in his dealings with the senate and many senators thought he was acting like a king or had ambitions to be a king, which was totally unacceptable to the Roman way of thinking. There was also a nasty rumor going around that Caesar was going to move the capitol to Alexandria. The conspirators acted, thinking they were saving the republic, but as it turned out, they contributed to its downfall.

Cleopatra's son, that she claimed was by Julius Caesar, was Ptolemy XV, nicknamed Caesarion.

Being captured would be a disgrace and rob him of his honor.

We cannot know what Brutus tells the audience at that this point if you do not tell us what this point is.

Julius Victor Berger died in 1902.