Ancient Rome
Quotes
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar,
The Person
Julius Caesar,
The Play
The actual date of
Shakespeare's
birth is not known,
but, traditionally,
April 23 has been
Shakespeare's
accepted birthday.
A house on Henley
Street in Stratford,
England, owned by
William's father,
John, is accepted
as Shakespeare's
birth place.
Shakespeare was a
first-rate actor. He
then became
actor-manager and
part-owner in the
Blackfriars and
afterwards the
Globe Theatres.
Shakespeare is
widely regarded as
the greatest writer in
the English language
and the world's
preeminent dramatist.
His surviving works
consist of 38 plays,
154 sonnets, two long
narrative poems, and
several other poems.
Shakespeare’s
plays have been
translated into
every major living
language, and they
are performed
more often than
those of any other
playwright.
Julius Caesar was a
Roman military and
political leader. He
played a critical
role in the
transformation of
the Roman Republic
into the Roman
Empire.
Caesar was a politician
and general of the
Roman republic who
greatly extended the
Roman empire before
seizing power and
making himself
dictator of Rome.
Julius Caesar's bloody
assassination on
March 15, 44 B.C.,
forever marked March
15, or the Ides of
March, as a day of
infamy.
The Roman Republic was established in
509 B.C. after Roman nobles overthrew the
king. Under this new government, the
Senate became the most powerful body.
Ladder of Political
Advancement
Political
Hierarchy
Ancient Rome was
situated on seven
hills and its
monumental public
buildings - the
Colosseum, the
Forum of Trajan, and
the Pantheon - made
the city the "capital of
the world" under the
emperors.
Pictorial Tour of
Rome
Brutus is one of the
men who assassinate
Caesar in the Senate.
Mark Antony is one of
the Triumvirs
(leaders) who rule
Rome following
Caesar's
assassination.
Cassius is one of the
original conspirators
against Caesar.
Calphurnia is the wife
of Caesar who begs
him not to go to the
Senate on "the ides of
March."
Portia is the wife of
Marcus Brutus who
tries to learn from
Brutus the
assassination
conspiracy he is
hiding from her.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me
your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to
praise him". Quote (Act III, Scene II).
"Et tu, Brute!" Quote (Act III, Scene I).
"Men at some time are masters of their
fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars, but in ourselves, that we are
underlings". - (Quote Act I, Scene II).
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I
loved Rome more". Quote (Act III, Scene
II).
"Beware the ides of March". - (Quote Act
I, Scene II).