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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.
By 48 BC, The Roman Republic enters the Silk Road under the command of General Tiberius who leads the Romans against Rebel forces of Huo An and the Han dynasty. Julius Caesar: 2002 Empire: 2005 Rome: 2005 deals with the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Liberators' civil war Caesar (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode ...
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.
Early in his career, he was a partisan and protégé of the Roman general and dictator Sulla; later, he became the political ally, and finally the enemy, of Julius Caesar. A member of the senatorial nobility, Pompey entered into a military career while still young. He rose to prominence serving Sulla as a commander in the civil war of 83–81 BC.
The first season depicts Julius Caesar's civil war of 49 BC against the traditionalist conservative faction in the Roman Senate (the Optimates), his rise to dictatorship over Rome, and his fall, spanning the time from the end of his Gallic Wars (52 BC or 701 ab urbe condita) until his assassination on 15 March 44 BC (the infamous Ides of March).
Ambrosinus, a Druid and member of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword of Julius Caesar, becomes tutor to the young newly crowned Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus. As Emperor, Romulus and his father Orestes refuse to give the Gothic warlord Odoacer a third of Italy. On the same day, Romulus meets the general of the Nova Invicta Legion ...
Julius Caesar: 2002: 100–44 BC: a bio-pic of Julius Caesar, not the Shakespeare play about his death and the aftermath Burebista: 1980: 82–44 BC: The reign of King Burebista of Dacia (modern day Romania) Julius Caesar Against the Pirates: 1962: 75 BC: loosely based on actual events from the early life of Julius Caesar. Sins of Rome: 1953: ...
Publius Cornelius Dolabella (c. 85/69 – 43 BC, also known by his adoptive name Lentulus) [5] was a Roman politician and general under the dictator Julius Caesar.He was by far the most important of the patrician Cornelii Dolabellae [6] but he arranged for himself to be adopted into the plebeian Cornelii Lentuli so that he could become a plebeian tribune. [7]