... like today, their viewpoints and outlooks on life could easily be changed by a speaker's ingenuity. The most critical moment of the story, however, is the speech at the Forum in Act III, Scene II. The two speakers, Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony, are both friends of Julius Caesar; however, the difference between them is that Brutus was part ... of the conspiracy to kill Caesar, yet Antony stayed true to him. After Caesar's death, the whole city of Rome proceeded to the Forum to hear exactly what happened and what should be accomplished next. Both orators had to express their positions on...

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... Roman government. It was made up of 300 magistrates. An important job of the senate was watching finances. The senate would congregate in a building called the Curia, in the Roman forum. At first birth was what determined who was a senator. " a cross between the British and Canadian senates in that individual members could (eventually) be appointed" (Saywell and Ricker 1) After the fourth ... ...

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... the foot of Pompey's statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral oration by Mark Antony, Caesar's body was burned by the mob in the forum. When at 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 ... ...

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... too poorly. Caesar used his power for good. He ordered that all transactions were to be made public, and summaries of all debates and proposed bills were posted in the forum for all to see. Caesar made Rome a prosperous, and trustworthy place to live. Conspiracy and the Death of Caesar Caesar's rise to power and wad not seen as beneficial to ... ...

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... sense, killing him was actually counterproductive to the growth and development of the Roman Empire. For example, he patiently handled the problem of debt, created the Julian calendar, built a new forum, reduced the Civil Code to manageable proportions, provided public libraries, drained the Pomptine Marshes, subsidized public works and entertainment, standardized the system of tax collections throughout the empire, and much ... ...

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... by conquering many city-states and furthering the glory of Rome. Rome grew to be very large with all its architecture and people. Some of this architecture includes the Roman forum and the Arch of Titus. By expanding Rome, this made Rome more powerful and closer to become a world dominator. The Ius Civile was the creation of a single unified code of ... ...

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... hands in it. (75 -79) While Calphurnia interprets the dream as "warnings and portents/ And evils imminent" (80 -81), Decius, the conspirator, who has promised to lure Caesar to the Forum to be assassinated, cleverly offers a flattering counter interpretation. Barbara Bono comments that in Decius' interpretation Caesar himself becomes the maternal nurse of Rome (465): This dream is all amiss interpreted ... ...

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... . Cleopatra and Julius Caesar fell in love. A major problem was that Julius Caesar was already married. Caesar loved Cleopatra a lot, and he put a gilt-bronze statue of her in a public forum. Caesar made Cleopatra ruler of Egypt again, but this time with a different younger brother, Ptolemy XIV. In 47 B.C., Cleopatra had a baby boy Ptolemy Caesar, also called Caesarion. Julius Caesar invited ... ...

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