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Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination.According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.
Meanwhile, Caesar's widow Calpurnia walks around lamenting over her dead husband in a thick Bronx accent, "I told him, 'Julie, don't go! ' "—referring to Caesar's decision to go to the Roman Senate that day. [16] In addition to the roles of Flavius, Brutus, and Calpurnia, there are eight supporting male roles. [13]
Spartacus [a] (/ ˈ s p ɑːr t ə k ə s /; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar (1802), copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven from a painting by Richard Westall, illustrating Act IV, Scene III, from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Out of all the conspirators, only about twenty of their names are known. Nothing is known about some of those whose names have survived. [81]
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (101 BC [1] – c. 43 BC) was a Roman senator and the father-in-law of Julius Caesar [2] through his daughter Calpurnia.He was reportedly a follower of a school of Epicureanism that had been modified to befit politicians, as Epicureanism itself favoured withdrawal from politics. [3]
Julius Caesar (play) (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Cultural depictions of Calpurnia (wife of Caesar) (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), last wife of Roman dictator Julius Caesar; Calpurnia (wife of Pliny), third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and granddaughter of Calpurnius Fabatus; Lex Acilia Calpurnia (67 BC), a severe law against political corruption; Lex Calpurnia (149 BC), a law that established a permanent extortion court