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5 days ago · During the Republic, notable figures were amongst those who travelled abroad for educational purposes including Julius Caesar (c. 100-44 BCE), the politician Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BCE) the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE), poet and satirist Horace (65-8 BCE), and Marcus Tullius Cicero the Younger, son of the orator. Generations later, we have ...
2 days ago · When Julius Caesar declared himself a “dictator for life” a year later, his enemies decided to strike. While most of the conspirators were former supporters of Pompey, they managed to win on their side two of Caesar’s closest allies—Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius Longinus.
5 days ago · Edward Loomis Davenport as Brutus in an 1875 production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1599–1600 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of a promptbook.
- David Bevington
1 day ago · Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus dangle with their feet in the left and right mouths, respectively, for their involvement in the assassination of Julius Caesar (March 15, 44 BC) – an act which, to Dante, represented the destruction of a unified Italy and the killing of the man who was divinely appointed to govern the world.
1 day ago · Cicero was not included in the conspiracy, even though the conspirators were sure of his sympathy. Marcus Junius Brutus called out Cicero's name, asking him to restore the republic when he lifted his bloodstained dagger after the assassination.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero (brother)
2 days ago · "gladiators, combatants at games" published on by Oxford University Press.
5 days ago · Answer: Marcus Junius Brutus Three weeks after the First Battle of Philippi came the Second Battle. Brutus drew up his legions on an east-west axis but soon became endangered by the Triumvirs' legions outflanking him. He stretched his lines, but this resulted in disaster when his weakened centre was unable to withstand his enemies' attack.
