Pompey

Scene Explanation: This part of the play is taking place in Caesar’s estate where it is sunrise. Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife has just had many nightmares about the great dictator dying that next day. She tries to warn him to stay at home, and he listens to her. However, Decius, a conspirator who is plotting to kill Caesar, interprets Calpurnia’s nightmares in a good way. He says that it shows how much the common people worship Caesar and that it is all the more reason for him to go to the inaugural…

Julius Caesar is upheld as one of the most influential politicians of European history. Caesar was truly influential for every man and women of Rome. Caesar was successful in the battle field and had a large group of dedicated followers, but more importantly Caesar caused some anger and some extreme hatred towards himself. Julius Caesar was assassinated because the people of Rome stood firmly against a tyrant, rumors regarding Julius Caesar caused fear and uncertainty of Rome’s future, and…

Roman Mythology The great city of Rome, we all know how Rome came to its great fall, but what about how it all began. Greek was very influential on Rome's development and cultures. The Roman have two stories to how their city began. With Rome's various versions of “Romulus and Remus”,the more famous version of how Rome began, this story has everything from Roman culture, wars, and Rome’s very influential way to run a government. The Roman culture has it all, fashion, art, and food.…

mean that the development of the cult overlaps with its expansion, rather than in phases. However, this theory is contradictory to the literary work of the historian Plutarch who was writing in the first century AD. Plutarch states in his ‘Life of Pompey’ “ξένας δέ θυίας έθυον αύτοί τάς έν Ολύμπω, καί τελετάς τινας άπορρήτους έτέλουν, ών ή τοΰ Μίθρου καί μέχρι δεΰρο διασώζεται καταδειχθεϊοα πρώτον ύπ έκείνων.” Therefore, if Plutarch’s account which states that the cult of Mithras first…

around the streets of Rome high off of the fame and power he has gained. The common people of Rome praise Caesar as if he was a god. This puts an uneasy feeling to those who seek power as well. As Caesar is walking around basking in his victory against Pompey a psychic tell Caesar to “beware the ides of March”. This is something that is repeated multiple times throughout the play. What this means is that something bad is going to happen on March 15th. Instead…

years the most remarkable thing about Octavius was his uncle, Julius Caesar. The first real hints of the leader he would become came in 46 BC, at the age of 17, when he travelled to Hispania to join his uncle during the civil war between Caesar and Pompey (Suetonius 8). Fighting a sustained illness, surviving a shipwreck, and crossing enemy territory on foot, Octavius eventually joined his uncle’s forces and earned his deepest respects. It was after these feats of bravery and loyalty that Julius…

Shakespeare’s Attitude to Puritanism in his Plays The term “Puritan” appeared in England around 1565 as a reference to the abuse of religious propaganda in the period. German refugees brought into England the notion of pure primitive church and purity of reform. One of the first printed uses of the term originated in a Catholic attack on an Anglican policy statement and later as an argument of Protestant leaders against Elizabeth’s keeping of the crucifix on her chapel altar. Puritanism can be…

The first one answers without any hesitation but the second man answers, says he is a cobbler and that they are skipping work to see Caesar. Murallus tells the men that they are forgetting that they are violating Pompey. He scolds the workmen for celebrating the man who won the battle between Pompey’s sons, he then tells them to go home and ask for forgiveness to the gods. Julius Caesar arrives in Rome with great excitement and calls his wife, Calphurnia and tells…