Mark Antony

he Crossing of the Rubicon Annotated Bibliography Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus. “The Crossing of the Rubicon.” The Portable Roman Reader. New York: Penguin Group, 1977. Lucanus shows us how the Romans have become caught up with living a wealthy life, full of luxuries. Having forgotten their humble beginnings, the people of Rome are corrupt with greed. Ceasar, a powerful leader of his people, feels guilty for how his country has lost sight of what is important, at least important to…

For example, Shakespeare was inspired by her life to write a play about her and Antony. Also, most of what we know about Cleopatra comes from what Plutarch and other Greco – Roman scholars wrote about her in their books. No wonder so many books and movies have been created about Cleopatra because she was so “daring, clever, smart, rich…

to an absolute ruler, the Senators united and murdered him in 44 B.C.E.. However, the Senators’ purpose of returning Rome back to a Republic was ruined when “eighteen-year-old Octavian (63 B.C.E.-14 C.E), joined with two of Caesar’s followers, Marc Antony and Lepidus, in the Second Triumvirate”…

Was Julius Caesar a hero or a villain? Personally, I think he was a hero. He was a hero because he made the senate larger, he had good leadership and strategy in the military, which made him able to win a lot of battles. Caesar was a military leader, and he was an amazing one. He won a lot of wars for Rome. He fought in the wars with the soldiers and took control of Rome. He had a great military strategy and leadership, and won the support of his soldiers through that. He also treated many of…

Hannibal Barca is widely considered to have been one of the greatest military commanders of all time. In the second Punic war, he marched an army of elephants, cavalry, and infantry over the Alps to assault Rome in their home territory, his most famous achievement, and fought a war that soaked Italy in blood for more than a decade. In the end, due to lack of support from Carthage, Hannibal was unable to take Rome itself, though he defeated many Roman armies, and he was forced to return to…

lives during the battle between Antony, Julius Caesar’s best friend and Julius Caesar’s son, Octavius. This all occurs after the motives Brutus and Cassius had when they decide to kill Caesar. The reason for the downfall of Brutus and Cassius is because Marc Antony planned and spoke against them, Antony loved Caesar and they killed him, and his ambition. Since Caesar was ambitious, he caused the deaths of Brutus and Cassius. Brutus and Cassius are dead because Marc Antony chose to speak…

actually understand her true importance as a female leader in a world dominated by men as well as her impact on Western Civilization. By proving her importance, the topics will include her rise to power to the Egyptian throne, her relationships with Marc Antony and Julius Caesar and how she gained importance by being the catalyst that caused the final Roman civil war of the republic. The start of Cleopatra’s reign did not start smoothly and instead was almost in ruin with Rome’s pressing…

Roman Empire unique because of several reasons. First roman empire had most powerful and organized the military system. The large standing army was concentrated on the frontier and defended the interior of the empire against foreign invasions. The Roman imperial administration attempted to make the Roman armies as productive as possible. Someone who had joined the army had decided upon his life’s work since the standard enlistment was twenty-five years. Romans believed that the that wanted to…

Musical Theatre – Little Shop of Horrors Seymour is a nerdy man who works as an assistant in a florist where he discovers a plant (Audrey II) which he named after a girl he likes who works at the flower shop also (Audrey). The plant feeds on blood and human flesh. Audrey is a young girl who is going out with a dentist (Orin) who eventually gets feed to Audrey II. The flower shop owner witnesses this (Mushnik) and so Seymour has to feed him to Audrey II as well. This makes the plant bigger,…

Within the play Julius Caesar, as an audience, we are asked to question every character’s virtue. As the play progresses these lines between good and bad men become increasingly blurred, making it harder for the audience to distinguish the wrong from the right. Ultimately it would appear that every character is filled with both evil and good and it seems as though throughout this play Shakespeare is trying to highlight the unrealism attached to such simplistic ideas. Within Medieval England…