Little Caesars

Julius Caesar is one of my favorite Greek leaders. Some of the things that he has done sound unreal, and are very unknown. One time, in 75 B.C., he was kidnapped by pirates. He was in his mid-20s, and had he set out from Rome for the Aegean island of Rhodes. He planned to study with Apollonius who was a Greek rhetorician whose students had included Cicero, who became a famous orator in Rome. However, along the way to Rhodes, Caesar’s ship was hijacked by pirates off the southwestern coast of Asia

became a victim of its own success and fell into a state of social, economic and political strife. From a combination of overpopulation and mass unemployment stemmed economic stagnation and public upheaval. (Link to next- idea of reformers) Julius Caesar was a man of pure ambition who’s social, economic, and political reforms in the 1st century BC greatly assisted in the decline of the Republic. While it was not Caesar’s motive to directly end the Republic, it was his aim to become powerful and implement

traitors.” VINI, VITI, VINCI-“I came, I saw, I conquered”. Caesar was the most powerful man of his his time. What are the differences between real life and shakespeare's depiction of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was A captivating politician and successful general that developed into a powerful dictator. He was born on July 17,100 B.C to a noble family of little wealth. Which was probably part of the drive that pushed him to victory. Caesar learned how to to become a leader at young age because when

will examine the events of the Ides of March, recreated within Shakespeare’s modern play Julius Caesar. The Ides of March in this essay refers to the day of Caesar’s death – 15th March 44 BCE. Shakespeare depicts this event in depth, and over the course of multiple scenes within Julius Caesar. This essay will primarily focus on Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans: The Life of Julius Caesar as an ancient source, as it was the primary text which Shakespeare drew from, as well as being prominent

Triumvirate was formed in 60 B.C. to share the power and make each person more powerful than before. The three men in the triumvirate were Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Pompey the Great. Caesar was elected consul in Gaul, where he became very successful. Following the death of Crassus, a rivalry between the Caesar and Pompey erupted. The Senate ordered Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome.

To lose morality is to have some to begin with. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, many see Brutus as an honorable character but really he is as ¨ambitious¨ as Caesar. Many people say he lost morals, but the real question is has he always been this vain person. In Shakespeare’s play, Brutus and a few conspirators come together and kill Caesar so he can not take the throne because he would be a ¨horrible leader¨ and for the ¨greater good¨ of Rome. These actions lead to riots

Julius Caesar Seminar Questions 1. When Caesar says that Cassius thinks too much, I agree. Cassius tends to look into the details and over think simple situations. He becomes very meticulous about how the group of the conspirators is organized. Also, while Cassius is the one who originally comes up with the idea of the conspiracy and that he wants Brutus to be in charge, he thinks through the plan, yet does not want to take responsibility. Cassius just about argues with himself, due to too

is able to show his friendship to Caesar by mourning his death, speaking to his body after the murder, and gathering the citizens to avenge Caesar. One way Antony is able to show his loyalty to Caesar is through his mourning of Caesar’s murder. One instance is in lines 149-150 of Scene 1, “Are all thy conquests, glories,triumphs, spoils shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well,” (Shakespeare 149-150). This shows his loyalty by mourning the death of Caesar at the scene of his death. A second

In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, the character Mark Antony remains the same throughout the play making him a static character. Antony’s character has a wide variety of character traits but most of them remain unchanged throughout the play. And so even though Antony is a well rounded character he is still static because his many character traits remain the same. Some examples of Antony’s traits that remain constant are his loyalty to Caesar, his manipulative behavior, his selfishness, and his

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare talks about the story of Julius Caesar’s life and his role in the Roman Empire. The Roman general Julius Caesar turns the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire. But what made the Roman Empire, during the play the roman people talk about honor and nobility and making a king to rule that is a true roman but what makes a true roman? During the play, a “true roman” means different thing to different characters but overall a noble man would only do for the