All 3 Uses of
Julius Caesar
in
Antony and Cleopatra
- To you all three, The senators alone of this great world, Chief factors for the gods,—I do not know Wherefore my father should revengers want, Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar, Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him.†
Scene 2.6
- I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew fat with feasting there.†
Scene 2.6 *
- Why, Enobarbus, When Antony found Julius Caesar dead, He cried almost to roaring; and he wept When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.†
Scene 3.2
Definition:
the most famous of Rome's generals and leaders (100-44 BC)
Julius Caesar was never emperor of the Roman Empire because Rome was a Republic during his lifetime. He was assassinated by senators (including his friend Brutus as told in Shakespeare's play) who feared that he was taking too much power from the senators. The assassination restored the Republic, but provoked a civil war which led to the autocratic Roman Empire. Emperors of that empire took the last name Caesar because of him.