Roman calendar

things can happen when reading a Shakespeare Play. As you know from the previous Acts , you know that Caesar is dead, and Brutus and Mark Antony are fighting to take over Rome. While the murder of Caesar was going on, Octavius, the general of the Roman army, was not present at that time. Nobody really knew how he would react or what side he would choose. We find out that he decided to have an alliance with Mark Antony, and power with him to kill those that killed Caesar. …

In the past couple of scenes we have seen many things in this play. First is as we all know Caesar was killed by the conspirators. Also at the funeral Brutus gave a speech saying that they killed Caesar for the good of Rome. He said Caesar was too ambitious and that’s why they killed him. Antony also gave a speech, but said that Caesar wasn’t too ambitious and listed his reasons. The crowd believed Antony more than they believed Brutus. Therefore now the crowd wants all the…

something against his better judgement during the battle at Philippi. But what about Octavius and Antony? Well, even though we don’t hear from them directly in scenes two and three, we hear about them. We hear that they have killed one hundred Roman senators. From this we can infer that they have quite an army, and that Brutus and Cassius are going to have a very hard time trying to defeat them. We can also infer that because Brutus will have such emotional strain, Antony and Octavius…

The Roman Republic was indeed a prosperous civilization with advancements in literature, poetry, and architecture, but after an unfortunate series of bad rulers and growing barbarian and Germanic tribe power, the Roman Republic declined and eventually split. A desire for military superiority could also be attributed to the fall of the Roman Republic in taking too much land and spreading troops too thin across their borders. A few select leaders partially paused the Roman Republic decline, but…

inequality or lack of attention regarding rights and privileges any longer, revolt is the outcome. According to Nelson (2015), “The patricians were the ruling class of the early Roman Empire. Only certain families were part of the patrician class and you had to be born a patrician. The patricians were only a small percentage of the Roman population, but they held all the power. All the other citizens of Rome were Plebeians. Plebeians were the farmers, craftsmen, laborers,…

structure of the Roman family and views on women. I will show that the description by Livy and the realities of Rome are very close and my hope is that you will be able to see how Livy’s myth could be plausible. I also hope that you will be able to see in my argument that women at this time were no more than a piece of property with minimal rights, but there was an aspect of respect as to the need for and devotion of women…

his speech, “ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”(III.ii.82-83). Antony’s ethos is better than Brutus’ because he is using his position as a noble and saying the plebeians is his friend. This quote is showing that Antony is trying to get the plebeians attention, and going into the plebeians heart that he is the same as the plebeians. Antony is saying that he is the same as the plebeians, he is a fellow countryman, a roman, and a friend and…

A lot of important events occur in Act 4 of Julius Caesar. One thing that I believe will be important in the future is actually in Scene 1, Octavius and Antony decide that Lepidus’ brother, Publius, should be killed. Some most important things are that Cassius and Brutus are in an argument, Brutus’ wife, Portia, died, and the ghost of Caesar pays Brutus a visit. I definitely think that all of these things are crucial to the future of the play and the fate of Octavius, Antony, Brutus, and Cassius…

Religion is a large puzzle piece in common culture. The Roman empire was initially notorious for paganism, which through the test of time became ostracized. Christianity lurked within the Roman empire and was inferior early on as believers were often persecuted. Once Christianity began to pervade the government there were conversions seen among some of the officials. In time, Christianity took root and was eventually made the state religion in Rome. The values and ideals of the two religions…

impression that the death of this saint is her reward for her life of servitude. This in turn lead the audience to believe that the path of Christianity is superior to Judaism or the religious path of the Roman’s. The violence and torturous methods the Romans used against Saint Cecilia as portrayed in her death would have also possibly repelled anyone on the fence about one 's own religion. The techniques used to portray Saint Cecilia’s demise and the persuasiveness each one had separately…