... - "But as he was ambitious, I slew him." (Act 3. Scene 2. Line 28). Caesar was also a good person. This is evident when Antony reads Caesars will, and states that Caesar left all the people of Rome money and land. Caesar also listened to the people, "When the poor cried; Caesar wept". Caesar was also warned many times buy various people before he was killed ... thou?" (Act 4. Scene 3. Line 326). The ghost of Caesar answered, "To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi." (Act 4. Scene 3. Line 327). Also During the battles there is a mistake, Pindarus, Cassius' slave, thinks that Titinius...

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... duty, "files and musters", "plated", "Mars". This perception that Shakespeare has given us of the Romans is how the audiences is expecting Antony to be but their thoughts are questioned as Philo claims that "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpets fool". Antony was presumed to be strong and empowered is ... called in Rome" we see him here both having doubts about Cleopatra and caring what others, especially his country thinks of her. Shakespeare gives us a small insight into the mind of Antony during this scene where we can see that when he is talking to his messenger...

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... triumvirate. Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... resented his actual position, which was shown through the conspiracy when Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ide...

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... a way to amass some wealth in Rome. He saw the territories of Gaul as a perfect solution to this problem. Gaul held enough wealth to repay the debt many times over, making it a prime target for Caesar and his armies. Gaul was comprised of many different tribes of people, some of which had begun to settle on Roman land. This provided Caesar with a golden opportunity to make it ... seem as if a war was necessary to defend Rome. After 8 years of fighting, Rome had successfully expanded over the whole of Gaul and quickly accumulated vast amounts of riches. This victory prompted Caesar to ut...

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... natural son) 'struck Caesar down at the foot of Pompey's statute during a session at the senate'(Plutarch). In the aftermath of Caesar's assignation, Cleopatra widely withdrew from Rome and "During the next three years, Cleopatra, now in her twenties devoted her self to the government and country. The Nile twice failed to rise to sufficiently irrigate the land, Nonetheless she managed to keep peace on ... both the country side and in Alexandria. Meanwhile civil war was erupting in Rome once again, one between Octavian and Antony and then against Caesars assassins. "Cleopatra, as a ruler ...

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... place for Gaius Marius. He called Marius an "Italian hayseed with no Greek". He said he would rather be disgraced and dead than to give Marius permission to go to Rome to stand for election. (page 279) Marius got the help of Prince Gauda to tell Rome through a letter campaign to tell how Quintus Caecilius was not a good general in Africa. Quintus Caecilius ... keep his consulship so many times. He was re-elected in absentia three times. When the war with the Germans was over, Marius came back to Rome and wanted to pass laws to give land to his soldiers. He promised his veterans plots of...

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... homosexual witch hunts conducted by superiors. "Humping" day in and day out through land mines just like every other "grunt or leg" in Vietnam. Soldiers; gay men and women not only went through the land mines of Vietnam, they have gone through the land mines of the 80's, 90's and today. Beginning in the 80's with the advent of "Don't ask don't tell". According to Barry Goldwater, in an article he ... wrote after retiring from the Senate in 1987: "Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They'll still be serving long after w...

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... ancient civilization that controlled a large land area and made lasting contributions to the modern world comes from the Romans. The central area of the establishment of this empire was directly related to the success that would follow. The Romans did borrow much of their culture aspects from fellow establishments and from establishments that had existed previously in the general area. They were as developed as the ancient Greeks, whom they adopted methods ... and use his powers to create a bad society, much like what had happened in the past. On the Ides of March, two days before he wa...

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... , he put it in the treasury, and he wept for the poor. By saying this, Antony hoped to get the attention of the crowd counteracting Brutus" statement of Caesar being ambitious. Also, Antony makes good use of Caesars will and the dead body. He tries to intice the crowd by referring to the will, which offered seventy five drachma to each citizen as well as Caesar's land to be used for a public ... park. At first, the people were against Antony, due to Brutus ... ...

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... Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his ...

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... Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his ...

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... Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his ...

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... Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his ...

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... Caesar's purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown ... member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his ...

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... crown, Rome's highest award for courage. Caesar was kept busy with administrative duties in Asia Minor. Caesar was going to join up with the navy to stop the pirates in the eastern Mediterranean until he got word that Sulla was dead. Caesar was now twenty-two and he would start his political career. He returned to Rome and had a joyous reunion with his wife ... . He resigned from his dictatorship after only eleven days and made himself consul as he originally planned. Caesar had five triumphs in his lifetime. After one of his victories he was again appointed dictator the length of the te...

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... athletic games and invited their neighbors, the Sabines. While they were at the games, some of the Romans sneaked off and stole the Sabine women (Burrell 14-15). Realizing what had happened, the Sabines prepared their army. Expecting this, the Romans were ready and the two forces lined up preparing to fight. Surprisingly, some of the women ran into the no-man's-land in between the armies. This is what their ... leader said: "We were just daughters a short while ago, now we are both wives and daughters. We did not choose our husbands - they chose us. We want this fighting to stop. If it g...

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... , and thought his laws to be supreme over the land and the Gods. "How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong." (Sentry, Scene 5, Line 127) Creon's judgements were often wrong. Antigone, Creon's niece, went against his decree of forbidding burial of Ployneices and did so anyway. (Polyneices was Antigone ... wise." (Choragos, Scene 5, Lines 139-142) Just as Creon made bad judgements, Julius Caesar did as well. Julius Caesar was one of the central characters in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Caesar's faux pas in his judgement could have easily been avoided had he just listened to rea...

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