... of March, a day in which this particular onlooker warned Caesar about. After ignoring the warning, Caesar leaves for the Feast of Lupercal. Later, two of Caesar's best men, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, converse expressing their disbelief in their kings ability to do his job. After talking they agree that something must be done. Together they plan a conspiracy against Caesar to end his ... to avenge Caesar's death and to defeat his murderers. He also conducts a speech at Caesar's funeral swaying the citizen's ideas about Caesar's leadership. He's loyal and respectful. Cassius: Cassius is t...

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... of conquering I believe that it always did end up benefiting Rome in some way, it gave them power and made them a historical power house for many reasons besides Julius' ramped conquers. Though some of Caesar's moves were strictly intended to help the people of Rome to start with he was able to weaken a ... senate had no faith in him, they saw him as a terrible leader and a weak person. In Act 2 Scene II Cassius had saved Caesars life many times asking for Cassius help saying Help me Cassius or I sink, did not work well for Caesar's image. His image was altered he was perceived as week b...

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... the city. After his reign, the people vowed never to have a king again, and a law was made where anybody who even talked about having a king back was executed. A senator named Brutus said, "I swear, and you, o gods, I call to witness that I will drive [away]... Tarquinius Superbus, together with his wicked wife and his whole family, with fire and sword and every means ... of the state. He promptly renamed himself dictator for life. On March 15, 44 BC, a group of senators who decided that Caesar was a danger to the Republic. Led by Brutus and Cassius, they attacked Caesar in the senate c...

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... Cleopatra to seek Cesar's asylum, as he had summoned both Cleopatra and her brother for conciliation. Sources, mainly those of Plutarch and Dio Cassius' tell us of her bold and witting meeting with the roman emperor. Fearing that she may killed by her brother's troops Cleopatra was ... XIII; the severed head of his once good friend Pompey. What ever the method of their meeting, they became lovers, perhaps for political reasons of political convenience, but the attraction between two powerful people of high lineage must have been exhilarating. Julius Caesar was 50, while Cleopatra now ......

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... to Greeks, Spaniards, and Gauls. He adopted a new calendar based on the Egyptian calendar. Caius Cassius was the ringleader in a conspiracy against Caesar. Cassius gathered a small group of citizens to join him in a plot to murder Caesar. In those days the killing of a ruler for patriotic reasons was not a crime! In February of 44 BC he was appointed dictator for life. This pushed ... conquests. He made plans to leave Rome for two years and lead an army. He was to leave on March 19. This meant the assassination had to take place soon, Cassius had to make final plans. Caesar knew somethi...

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... up appearances as far as Cleopatra's presence in Rome was concerned. Cleopatra's happiness was short lived yet again when Caesar was assassinated. He was stabbed to death by Marcus Brutus and Lucuis Cassius when he entered the Senate. Not only did Cleopatra lose her child's father, she lost her lover and protector, and with him went her hopes and dreams. Cleopatra was ... . There was public outcry at the two men who murdered Caesar. Both men fled Italy. Each of them sought help from Egypt, and Cleopatra supported the wrong man. Fearing that Cassius would be the victor she promised him ai...

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... Republic. Within Livy's text, the passage in Book 2 of Ab Urbe Condita relating the first proposed agrarian law in the Republic dives into the conflict. Spurius Cassius, who was a consul, proposed that land taken from the Hernici (as well as some from private individuals) be given to the Latins and the plebs. ... His colleague, Verginius, opposed the proposition with the support of the senators. Cassius even made a largess of Sicilian grain to the plebs, but was, in the end, accused of attempting to gain too much power. Thus, he was ... to side with the plebs in Ab Urbe Condita is the mu...

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... 46,000 men to Caesar's 21,000. By brilliant generalship, Caesar was victorious, though the toll was great on both sides, Caesar pardoned all Roman citizens who were captured, including Brutus, but Pompey escaped, fleeing to Egypt. (6) During October 2, 48 BC, Caesar, with no more that 4,00 legionaries, landed in Alexandria, he was presented, to his processed horror, with the head ... last meeting of the Senate before his departure, held at its temporary quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great. The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Brutus, Gaius Longinus, Decimus...

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... proceeded to the senate, where he is brutally murdered by his trusted friends. His murderers turn out to be his closest friends from the man he virtually called his son Brutus to on of the lowest men in his senate Cinna. His death causes war to break out between the democrats and the republicans. Many influential people were killed. Shakespeare's political ... in politics can turn the whole world upside down. "Beware of the Ides of March" consisted of five acts, act one started in a street in Rome, act two begins in Brutus" home, there is a senate meeting at the beginning of act three, ...

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... civil war and the people are sick of inner conflicts. His troops may not be loyal if this happen. So, by declaring war on Cleopatra, a foreigner, he can justify his reasons for war, even though he and most of Rome know that he will fight against Antony. The final battle in Actium was fought against Cleopatra and her ally, Antony. Caesar ... ...

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... the first man in Rome . What he asked from the senate was nothing compared to the bounty he had presented to them, but the senate declined to accommodate him. The reasons behind this unreasonable attitude of the senate cannot be easily explained, it could be that simple jealousy was at the core of it. Pompey was still a relatively young man but ... ...

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