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The Battle of Pharsalus was a decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War. On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus "Pompey the Great". Pompey had the backing of a majority of senators, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions. Pompey deployed his army in three lines, 10 men deep. He posted his most experienced legions on the flanks dispersing his new recruits along the center. In total, Caesar counted 110 complete cohorts in the Pompeian army, about 45,000 men.…
Construct a table like the ones we did in class showing profit and loss at relevant stock prices for each part of the spread, and the net profit or loss for the entire spread position.…
The Republican period of Roman history began in 509 BCE after the last Etruscan kings was dropped. The Republic was controlled by the Senate, which was an assembly by dominated upper-class families. This dominance by the aristocracy led to tensions between the social classes, especially among the lower classes who fought for equality in both the economy and the government. Despite these inner struggles, Rome's military power strengthened throughout the 5th and 4th centuries BCE and by 270 BCE they commanded the entire peninsula. 264 BCE brought the beginning of the three Punic Wars fought against Carthage over control of the western Mediterranean. These resulted in victories for Rome which granted them access to the wealth of Greece, Egypt,…
Mark Antony twisted the “dagger” of Caesar’s death ever so slightly and then threatened to unleash them on the Senators. But Caesar had named his grandnephew Gaius Octavius his sole heir. Octavius, who came into rule when he was 18, became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus or Octavian, the son of the great Caesar. “While Antony dealt with Decimus Brutus in the first round of the new civil wars, Octavian consolidated his tenuous…
Caesar is a powerful and ambitious leader which the conspirators are very aware of. This makes him dangerous because he is loved by the people and they will follow him. When Brutus and Cassius are conversing, you can see this as Brutus says “what means this shouting? I do fear, the people choose Caesar for their king” (1.2. 168-169). This fear comes from believing that Caesar wants the power for his own benefit and not Rome’s. Many of the senators believed Caesar to be an overly ambitious man. If the Romans choose Caesar as their king, the senators will no longer have power. Caesar wanting to strive for greatness and be in control is why he is brutally stabbed. After the death of Caesar, Antony, Caesar’s most loyal friend, wants to avenge him. After gaining army power to take down the conspirators, his character begins to change becoming dark and deceitful. This is where the ambitiousness of the leaders causes corruption and problems. The ambition also brings competition to the table. The competition is what brings the battles and therefore brings death. After many deaths in both of these books, ambition is shown to be the driving force behind it…
How can one man’s closest friend also be that man’s murderer? This is precisely what happens in Julius Caesar. Brutus kills his closest friend, Julius Caesar, and then he gives his justification for doing so in his speech at Julius Caesar’s own funeral. Although his speech was flawed, the crowd of people he spoke to were easily swayed, and they accepted Brutus’ justification. Unfortunately for Brutus, he allowed Mark Antony, another one of Caesar’s close friends to speak after him. His speech completely reversed the crowd’s opinion. Comparing Brutus and Antony’s funeral speeches is an important topic because it is a turning point in the conspirator’s attempts to sway the Roman people. The comparison shows how a few crucial errors on the conspirator’s part, along with a great speech by Antony, completely altered the outcome of the entire play. In comparing Brutus and Antony’s speeches, it becomes evident that Antony’s speech was much more effective than Brutus’ speech in four key areas: ethos, pathos, logos, and chronos.…
The new Roman republic spread during the 3 Punic Wars which Rome fought the armies of the Phoenician city of Carthage situated on the northern coast of Africa, defeat of the invading Carthaginian general Hannibal. Julius Caesar, end of the traditional institutions of the Roman state. Caesar’s grandnephew, Augustus Caesar sized power after Julius assassination, and established the basic structures of the Roman Empire. Marcus Aurelius brought peace and prosperity to the Mediterranean world. Government became less effective, strong later emperor, Diocletian and Constantine attempted to reverse the tide. Constantine adopted Christianity. The decline of the city states ushered in the Macedonian conquest and the formation of a wider Hellenistic culture. Important political institutions in peace and…
Honorable or not? Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare was a tragedy consisting many events. The tragedy of Julius Caesar began in Rome when the people of Rome are taking a holiday to celebrate the triumphant return of Julius Caesar. Two tribunes’ names Marullis and Flavious try to shame the people of Rome for their fickle behavior for one minute praising Pompey and now praising Caesar. Julius Caesar is a highly successful leader of Rome whose popularity seems to model a dictatorship. Although Caesar is loved and supported by the citizens some begin to grow worry of his increase in power through out Rome. Soon these worried citizens conspire to assassinate Caesar before he becomes king thus returning their republic government into a monarchy. These worried citizens consisted of two main characters Brutus and Cassius. Brutus ends up joining this conspiracy in killing Caesar because he strongly believes in keeping Rome a government ruled by the people. In addition to that, during the celebration, of Caesar is warned by the Soothsayer to “beware the Ides of March” The next…
In the play Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus is the tragic hero. Brutus is a tragic hero because he has Tragic Flaws. Brutus’s first tragic flaw is that he is naive; he is not a shrewd judge of people. As Caius Cassuis states, “Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see/thy honorable mental may be wrought /…There for it is meet / That noble minds keep ever with their likes / For who so firm that cannot be seduced?” (1.2.319-323). This shows how naïve Brutus is because he does not see that Cassuis is trying to manipulate him. Brutus’s second tragic flaw is that he has rigid ethics; he thinks he is unmovable. Brutus states himself that “[he is] armed so strong in honesty,…
To begin with, Brutus and Cassius both helped kill Caesar, but their motives for doing so were different. The motive that drove Brutus to killing Caesar was his love of Rome. Even though Brutus loved Caesar, he was convinced that Caesar would ruin Rome, which he loved even more than Caesar. This was proven when Brutus stated “Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more."In comparison, The motivation…
Everybody "[bows] to Caesar", and they love Caesar, and even offer him the crown (Parenti 5).…
Throughout The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus was one of the most important and influential characters in the play. He involved himself in many of the scandals entailing the conspirators, in hopes of fulfilling his duty as an honorable man. However, his impressionable personality would lead him to a fatal outcome, suicide. There were many different causes and factors that led to his death, along with the death of the other central characters. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar resulted in multiple tragedies, due to the actions and decisions made by Brutus and the other conspirators. Realistically, Brutus’ own decisions led to his death.…
First off, Brutus’s inflexible sense of honor made it easy for the conspirators to manipulate him. Brutus was very loyal to his close friends; however, when the future of Rome was taken into…
The welfare rights movement in the 1960s made basic income support available to more people than ever before. The decade prior to 1964 set the stage for the expansion of the pool of eligible individuals, but the explosion in magnitude of aid given during the movement itself allowed for substantial aid to reach those who were neediest. This substantive aid is what constitutes actual income support, rather than scant cash thrown at problem populations. Poor Blacks finally received the full aid they required, due to the lifting of eligibility restrictions in the ‘50s. Urban Whites had already been receiving aid when necessary, but the rural poor were struggling, as usual throughout history.…