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Cicero was portrayed on the motion picture screen by British actor Alan Napier in the 1953 film Julius Caesar, based on Shakespeare's play. [186] He has also been played by such noted actors as Michael Hordern (in Cleopatra ), [ 187 ] and André Morell (in the 1970 Julius Caesar ). [ 188 ]
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often shortened to Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar , to prevent him from becoming a tyrant.
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it ...
Atia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (b. 85 BC) Aulus Hirtius, Roman consul and historian (killed in battle) Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman statesman (murdered) (b. c. 81 BC) Decimus Laberius, Roman nobleman and Latin writer (b. c. 105 BC) Gaius Trebonius, Roman politician (assassin of Julius Caesar)
After Caesar's death, Cimber left for Bithynia to raise a fleet in support of the leaders of the assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. According to the pseudo-Brutus letters (purporting to be letters between Brutus and Cicero), he defeated Publius Cornelius Dolabella and provided naval support to Brutus and Cassius's ...
Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, or rather Lucius Varenus and Titus Pulfio [1] were two Roman centurions mentioned in the personal writings of Julius Caesar.Although it is sometimes stated they were members of the 11th Legion (Legio XI Claudia), Caesar never states the number of the legion concerned, giving only the words in ea legione ("in that legion").
In the 1937–38 Mercury Theatre stage production Caesar, Publius was played by Joseph Cotten. In the 1953 film of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Casca is portrayed by Edmond O'Brien. In the 1963 film Cleopatra, Casca is portrayed by Carroll O'Connor. In the 1970 film of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Casca is portrayed by Robert Vaughn.
The subjects consist of: Julius Caesar (d. 44 BC), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian (d. 96 AD). The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian , was the most popular work of Suetonius , at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his ...