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"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.
Suetonius mentions the quote merely as a rumor, as does Plutarch who also reports that Caesar said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators. [10] Caesar saying Et tu, Brute? in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (1599) [11] was not the first time the phrase was used in a dramatic play.
Funeral oration Julius Caesar gave in honor of his aunt Julia. Julius Caesar 68 BCE [48] Mark Antony's eulogy for Caesar: Mark Antony read Caesar's will and listed his accomplishments in an attempt to gain the populace's favor. Mark Antony: 44 BCE (March 19) [49] Philippicae: Collection of 14 speeches written by Cicero to denounce Mark Antony ...
One hypothesis states that the historic Caesar adapted the words of a Greek sentence which to the Romans had long since become proverbial: the complete phrase is said to have been "You too, my son, will have a taste of power", [21] of which Caesar only needed to invoke the opening words to foreshadow Brutus' own violent death, in response to ...
The laudatio Iuliae amitae ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that Julius Caesar said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius. [1] [2] The introduction of this laudatio funebris is reproduced in the work Divus Iulius by the Roman historian Suetonius: [3]
Pages in category "Quotes by Julius Caesar" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alea iacta est; K.
Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
Plutarch says that verse compositions were among the entertainments Caesar offered the Cilician pirates who captured him as a young man in 75 BC. [2] Pliny places "the divine Julius" on his list of serious men who wrote not-so-serious poems. [3] Caesar's Dicta Collectanea, a collection of his memorable quotations, is assumed to have contained ...