This week we are beginning the play Julius Caesar. This is a play that is considered a historical play as well as a tragedy. Much of the play is true, but Shakespeare did take certain liberties. However, for this week's blog, I'd like you to search the Internet and post two facts about Julius Caesar the man. You may not post a fact that someone else has already posted. So make sure you read over the previous post.
You will be responsible for knowing all of the facts that are posted.
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1) Julius Caesar left Rome to Join the Army. When leaving the Army he spent time getting an education, and public speaking.
2) Caesar returned to Rome determined he would get political standing. Not many senators liked him.
1. His family is said to be directly descended from the goddess Venus.
2. Gaius Julius Caesar was born July 13, 100BC.
1)Julius Caeser was a Roman military and a Political leader.
2) After he assumed control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and
1)Julius Ceaser played a critical role in changing the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.
2)He conquested Gual which extended to Roman empire to the North Sea.
1.Caesar is remembered as one of history's greatest generals and a key ruler of the Roman empire
2.His aunt Julia was the wife of Gaius Marius, leader of the Popular faction.
-born into one of the oldest patrician families in Rome (Julian)
-He was elected pontifex maximus in 53 B.C
1. Caesar formed an unofficial triumvirate with Crassus and Magnus.
2. His death brought about the end of the Roman Republic.
Julius Caesar:
1. Was head of the state
2. He died of assassination on March 15, 44BC
1. While Julius Caesar was sailing to Greece for further study, he was kidnaped by Cilician pirates and held for ransom.
2. In February, 47 BCE, after some months under seige, Caeser tried unsuccessfully to capture Pharos, a great lighthouse on an island in the harbor; at one point when cut off from his men he had to jump in the water and swim to safety.
Chelsea Byrnes
1) Julius changed the republic into a monarchy and a Mediterranean empire.
2)Julius was taught a good education by one of Rome's most important professors.
1. Caesar was the first Roman leader to issue coinage bearing his own likeness.
2. Caesar began his career in the Roman courts, where he became a successful advocate and a highly respected orator.
1. Conducted the first Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC.
2. When first joining the army, Caeser served under Marcus Minucius Thermus in Asia.
1. Some say he might of sufered from epilepsy or hypoglycemia.
2. Julius married 3 times in his life. 1st wife: Cornelia Cinnilla
2nd wife: Pompeia
Last wife: Calpurnia Pisonis
1. Caesar personally fought in war and conquered Gnaeus Pompey, who revolted in Spain.
2. When Caesar left Alexandria, he established Cleopatra as a client ruler in alliance with Rome.
-Caesar was appointed dictator of the Roman Empire.
-Caesar had an affair with Cleopatra.
1) He served with distinction, he won the Civic Crown for his duties in the attack on Mytilene.
2)he wrote the book De Bello Gallico
1. Caesar was a brilliant military commander. His campaigns in Gaul during his governorship brought enormous wealth to Rome.
2. Caesar chose his grand nephew Gaius Octavius as his heir.
1.While Julius Caesar was on his way to Greece he was kidnaped by Cilician Pirates. After being let go, he came and killed the pirates.
2.In the Roman calendar "The Ides of March" is known for Caeasars assassinated on March 15th.
1. During his lifetime, Julius Caesar held about every important title in the Roman Republic.
2. Caesar conducted the first Roman invasion of Britain in 55B.C.
1) Julius Caesar is known for his own commentaries on his military campaigns.
2) In 42 BC the senate officially sanctified him as one of the Roman deities.
1.After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government
2.A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44 BC, hoping to restore the normal running of the Republic
1)His father's family was from the patrician gens of the Julii which traced its lineage to the first king of Rome, Romulus, and the goddess Venus.
2)Caesar was know for having many extra-marital affairs with people such as Cleopatra,Servilia Caepionis. Because of this relationship, it has been speculated that Brutus was acutally Caesar's son.
1. Julius Caesar had a son named Caesarion.
2. Julius was stabbed to death by a group of men.
1.Julius Caesar was born in Rome on July 12 or 13, in the year 100 B.C. His father Gaius Caesar, died when Caesar was 16 years old
2.Caesar was made governor of Farther Spain in 61 B.C
1) Julius Caesar’s death is the turning point from a republic into an empire.
2) Caesar says a famous quote when he crosses the Rubicon river starting a civil war. His quote was "the die is cast"
He was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated on the floor of the Senate House in 44 BC, on the ides of March. Also he was warned many different times about his potential assassination, especially his wife who dreamed of him dying that night. Lastly, Julius Caesar was said to utter the line "Et tu Brute?" when he was being killed, which means, "and you Brutus?"
1. As a young man he was awarded the Corona Civica (civic crown) for valour while fighting in Asia Minor
2. Father: Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Mother: Aurelia (related to the Aurelia Cottae)
1) Julius Caesar fought Pompey (another member of the 1st Triumvirate) in the Roman Civil War.
2) After the Civil War, Julius Caesar appointed HIMSELF dictator for life. Not many people in the senate were happy about this.
1. He was assassinated by one of his close friends, Brutus.
2.He was suposedly born by caesarion section
1) Caesar went to Rhodes to study oratory, but on his way he was captured by pirates whom he charmed and seemingly befriended. After he was freed, he had the pirates executed.
2)Julius Caesar was a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, an orator, an historian, and a mathematician.
1. Julius' family had noble, patrician roots.
2. In 72 B.C. Julius Caesae assumed the role of military tribune.
Craig Leugers
1.Julius Caesar was in a poem of Suetonius, about how he was made fun of because of his baldness and would comb his hair upward to voer it.
2. He was given the task to defend Roman property in the coast of Asia Minor which is now known as Turkey.
1) Caesar was considered one of the greatest military strategists along with Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great.
2) Caesar is thought to have suffered from epilepsy.
Garrett Liggett
-The word Caesar comes from the Latin word caesaries meaning hair
-Julius Caesar was killed from many knives
Alex Abramovich
1) Julius Caesars mos famous quote was " I came I saw I conqured"
2)He was the first Roman ruler to hold many different offices.
1) Served as governor of the Roman province of Spain.
2) Used his power to carry out much-needed reform, relieving debt, enlarging the senate, building the Forum lulium and revising the calendar.
1) Julius Caesar left his entire estate to his Grandnephew Octavian Caesar upon his death. This became the basis Octavian's (later Augustus) claim to power in the second triumvirate.
2) Julius Caesar was one of the three members of the first triumvirate between himself, Marcus Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompey (who inevetibally turned on Caesar and declared him an enemy of the Roman Empire.)
1)played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
2 He was assasainated
1) Julius Ceasar had two sisters both names Julia.
2) He made two expeditions to Britain, in 55BC and 54BC.
1. Julius Caesar is known as one of the most brilliant military leaders in history.
2.He played a critical role in the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.
1.) Julius Caeser was an unrivaled military genius.
2.) Julius Caesar, the greatest manly man of the Roman Republic was rumored to be bisexual.
1. When Caesar entered Rome with his army he said "The Die is Cast"
2. He was apart of the first triumverate
1. It is speculated that Julius Caesar was sterile.
2. Some believe Caesar was deathly ill and asked to be assassinated so that the people would not know of his sickness and think of him as weak.
Gregory Stephen
-during his campaign in Gaul, Caesar's army built a wooden bridge in order to cross a large river. The bridge was burned upon retreat.
-Ceasar's line lasted through five emperors, ending in around 68 A.D.
Julius ceaser was the first emperor of rome that was the good emperors.
He has an alias of Augustus.
1. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River with an army.
2. He appointed himself dictator for life.
1)Julius Caesar had changed the nature of the Roman empire, he had swept away the old, corrupt system of the late Roman republic.
2)Aged 41, he was awarded the post of praetor, or senior judge. After completing his term as praetor, he could look forward to being appointed governor of a province.
1) Julius changed the republic into a monarchy and a Mediterranean empire.
2. Julius chose his grand nephew Gaius Octavius as his heir.
1) It was rumored that Caesar was a homosexual.
2) Caesar was noted to have many extra-marital affairs.
He was in the first triumvirate and defeated the others in it.
He also extended his empire throughout most of the Mediterranean.
1) Caesar was taunted all his life with charges of having been the lover of King Nicomedes of Bithynia.
2) Ceasar was married to a relative of Pompey named Pompeia.
1. He married two times.
2. Got stabbed 23 timees.
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