... in the most compelling poetic drama. He describes Antony's generosity and how popular he was with his men, and cuts out suggestions of Cleopatra's disloyalty. Shakespeare even invents actions by Octavius Caesar in order to increase our sympathy for the lovers. Strangely, in his need for a fast moving plot, he neglects to mention that Antony actually stayed with his wife Octavia ... animals" urine. None of the things he has had to do have made him flinch. He only ever cried when Julius Caesar died, and he is the greatest soldier that Octavius Caesar knows. Cleopatra can be seen as either...

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... most eminent figures in Western military and political history." (galenet.gale.com 1) Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) is a professional soldier and public official. After Caesar's death he formed an alliance with Octavius and Lepidus to govern Rome as a triumvirate. In 44 B.C., this alliance defeated the forces of Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Philippi. (galenet.gale.com) Marcus Brutus is a Roman ... takes a prominent role in the conspiracy against Caesar, his close friend. After the assassination, he flees to Rome and, with Cassius, raises an army against the triumvirate of Mark An...

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... the games in his honor the following July a comet appeared and it was regarded as evidence of his godhead and he was formally consecrated and "divus Julius," or divine Julius. Octavius, whose name became Caesar Octavianus after his adoption by Caesar's will, solved, by his creation of the Roman principate, the constitutional problem that Caesar failed to solve. Caesar had started ... ...

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