Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return". [1] Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC.
Within Carotta's theory the gospels are hypertexts after a diegetic transposition [7] of Latin and Greek Roman sources (hypotexts) on Caesar's life from the beginning of the civil war, the crossing of the Rubicon, his assassination, funeral, and deification, conforming to Jesus's mission from the Jordan to his arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Julius Caesar just before crossing the Rubicon, when he is supposed to have uttered the phrase. Alea iacta est ("The die is cast") is a variation of a Latin phrase (iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlɛ.a ˈɛs̺t]) attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on 10 January 49 BC, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy, in defiance of the Roman Senate and beginning a long civil ...
The expression "to cross the Rubicon" is a metaphor meaning to "to take an irrevocable step that commits one to a specific course". The phrase has its origin in Julius Caesar 's decision to cross the Rubicon river in 49 BCE, bringing his troops from Gaul into Italy and starting a five-year civil war that ended the Roman Republic and began the ...
Suetonius mentions Caesar's famous crossing of the Rubicon (the border between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul), on his way to Rome to start a Civil War against Pompey and ultimately seize power. Suetonius later describes Caesar's major reforms upon defeating Pompey and seizing power. One such reform was the modification of the Roman calendar. The ...
The speech is known as the 'Rubicon speech' because in its second-last paragraph Botha used the phrase, "I believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon. There can be no turning back." [2] alluding to the historical reference of Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon River.
Jean Fouquet, "Caesar Crossing the Rubicon", 15th-century MS of Histoire Ancienne jusqu'á César and Faits des Romains in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The function of such anachronistic accounts of the past, according to scholars such as Étienne Gilson , was to create an "eternal present" in which the classical past and the medieval ...
After Caesar's crossing, the Rubicon was a geographical feature of note until about 42 BC, when Octavian merged the Province of Cisalpine Gaul into Italia and the river ceased to be the extreme northern border of Italy. The decision robbed the Rubicon of its importance, and the name gradually disappeared from the local toponymy.