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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.
Although Suetonius, Cassius Dio, and probably Plutarch as well seem to have believed Caesar died without saying anything further, [12] the first two also reported that, according to others, Caesar had spoken the Greek phrase "καὶ σύ τέκνον" (Kaì sý, téknon - You too, child) to Brutus, as (in Suetonius) or after (in Dio) that senator struck at him.
"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 ...
He had married Servilia of the Servilii Caepiones who was the half-sister of Cato the Younger, [26] and later Julius Caesar's mistress. [27] Some ancient sources refer to the possibility of Caesar being Brutus' real father, [28] despite Caesar being only fifteen years old when Brutus was born. Ancient historians were sceptical of this ...
Senator Marcus Junius Brutus, a descendant of Lucius Junius Brutus and who also took part in the assassination of Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC, [2] [3] is sometimes credited with originating the phrase. [1] Plutarch suggests he either did not have a chance to say anything, or if he did, no one heard it:
In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, she appears in fictionalised form as Brutus' wife. [59] She makes only two appearances. Portia and Calpurnia are the only two substantial female roles in the play. It is reported in the fourth act that she died by swallowing fire. Portia, Wife of Brutus, John William Wright (c. 1849)
On several occasions Julius Caesar expressed how he loved Decimus Brutus like a son. Syme argued that if a Brutus was the natural son of Caesar, Decimus was more likely than Marcus Brutus. [20] Decimus was named an heir in the second degree in Caesar's will and was designated to become guardian of any child Caesar would have.
[2] [3] [4] Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives, and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus. [5] [6]