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Jun 14th, 2008 7:03:57 pm - Subscribe |
| lately, i have been interested in reading about the assassination of Julius Caesar and all those surrounding him at the time. it is a rather complex series of events and the motives behind the murder make sense from the Senators point of view. i personally think that it was an effort to make Rome remain free and not under a dictator. caesar's murder was just after he declared himself the dictator of Rome... for life. Brutus was the lead hitman in the murder. He and Caissus, along with Casca instigated the murder. Casca was first to stab Caesar and he blocked it, then as history has it, and i think the most haunting part of the entire scenario, "when caesar looked up after blunting casca's stab, he saw brutus. it was then when caesar put his toga over his face and accepted his fate, as the fellow conspirators closed in on him, stabbing him a total of 27 times. brutus is noted as dealing the final death blow, ending the dictator's life. then there is marc antony. many regard he, as brutus, as one of the greatest military tacticians of all time. nonetheless, antony is an interesting figurehead. he was racially pure, as it pertains to being a Roman, and many thought that he was steadfast in maintaining his Roman race and loyalty to the same. however, he fell for the greatest seductress of all time. the god of seduction, as documented by Robert Greene, in his book, the art of seduction; Cleopatra. she was the greatest seductress of all time. she made kings of state fall for her and betray their very own states for a chance or time with her. she was a native of egypt. she was a lover of julius caesar and marc antony; whose loyalties and ties surpassed all in the Roman empire, arguably. however, he left Rome to be with Cleopatra and ended up killing himself because he thought she was dead. she got wind that Marc Antony was going to kill her because she thought he thought she was conspiring against him. well, turns out, that wasnt the case, and when she had the information dispatched to him, that she had died, he committed suicide. a few days later, she ended her life by taking a poisonous asp to her chest and dying because "her only love" was dead. later, when both bodies were found, caesar's son, the heir to the Roman state had them both buried together, side by side. |
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david |
June 17th, 2008 |
| No problem, glad I could help out with that music issue. | ||
| adamson |
June 17th, 2008 |
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| It's always a sad story to read, the story of Julius Caesar and Rome. Rome... such a not. |
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gravitate |
June 18th, 2008 |
| its one of my favorite stories. | ||
| peony |
June 18th, 2008 |
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| You..you know that's just a play, right? I mean..when you say "it's my favorite story" it really is just a story. In fact, Julius Caesar went on to live a very extravagant life..I mean, he was murdered, but not as equisitely as Shakespear puts it. | ||
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