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…. During this period he wrote CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1901) and THE PERFECT WAGNERITE (1898). "...I have no reason to believe that they would have been a bit better if they had been written on two legs instead of one," he wrote in a letter to the playwright St…

…results of the war include the expansion of Rome into Northern Africa and Western Europe. The downfall of Rome was caused by their major weakness: instability in the growing Republic. After Octavian, or Augustus Caesar, took over the government…

…the time period in which civilization really started to rise; this period is known as the classical period. During the classical period there where many influential people. There was Augusta Caesar (the leader of the Roman empire), Alexander the Great (a Greek…

…Catholic dogmas stated that if they were forced to choose between obedience to God and obedience to Caesar, they would unanimously choose in favor of God” (Gottfried 4). The Diet was not delighted to hear such slander against everything their country stood…

…when the prince encounters the English captain who deceitfully places Oroonoko and others in captivity. Oroonoko is portrayed in a state of suffering when he is enslaved, "We were no sooner arrived but we went up to the plantation to see Caesar; whom we…

…started in Rome by its earlier conquerors, the Etruscans. But not until the reign of Commodus (180-192 AD) did Roman citizens witness wholesale slaughter by a Caesar himself, dressed as a gladiator and acting like a madman. There is some truth to the story…

…is able to have any man she wants and is in essence the ruler of Egypt. Caesar was enamored with the woman as was the general Brutus. She used her womanly wiles to etch a name for herself in history and by the seat of one of the mightiest rulers the world has…

…colleagues that the king will be killed for "there is not citizen who does not have the right that Brutus had over Caesar." He then tries to intimidate them by saying that absolution of the King should make the Convention not worthy of public’s confidence…

…, 1980. “The Throne of the Caesars: Emperor Constantine I (The Great).” 15 November 1999.…

…lay his military genius. Much of Napoleon's military genius comes from his studies of history's finest commanders. Of these influences on Napoleon were Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Eugene, and most of all Frederick the Great…