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…are Brutus and Cassius, who betrayed Julius Caesar. Just as Christ serves as the perfect manifestation of religion, it can be inferred by the punishment of these two men that, in Dante’s mind, Caesar is the epitome of politics. The comparable punishments…

…themselves. With this new military come a need for a new kind of government. For years, the government had been a senate of three hundred and two consuls, one for financial and similar stuff, and the other for military. A military consul named Julius Caesar saw…

…”. Numerous others contributing literature popularized Cicero’s age as well. The general Julius Caesar and Historian Sallust made important contributions to the circle. Caesar with detailed accounts of the Gallic and civil wars, and Sallust writing history as well…

…as well. The general Julius Caesar and Historian Sallust made important contributions to the circle. Caesar with detailed accounts of the Gallic and civil wars, and Sallust writing history as well, noted for brilliant descriptions of people and their motives…

…Macbeth compares himself to Mark Antony and Banquo to Julius Caesar. This is because Antony's guiding spirit was made timid by Caesar's just as Macbeth's is by Banquo's. Macbeth viewed himself as inferior to Banquo in terms of bravery and character. So he took…

…is even more obvious. Gloria Capulet is Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Cleopatra was a beautiful, strong-willed and corrupted woman, much like Gloria herself. Fulgencio Capulet is Julius Caesar, one of the greatest leaders of the Roman Empire, and the perfect…

…calendar satisfactorily established the dates of all the festivals but did not take into account the differing lengths of the solar and lunar years. In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar attempted to reconcile this problem and issued a new calendar system with a leap year…

…by the emperor Julius Caesar, the ruling class soon found that gladiatorial contests could appease the empire’s massive population. Entertaining the mob became a top priority for many of Rome’s rulers; they found that the Roman people approved of their emperor…

…. They used a lunar month, squeezing in a month every so often to make up a solar year. By the time Julius Caesar ruled, this process had fallen into such disarray that the winter months fell in the autumn. Pontiffs, state administrators who determined…

…of his career. By that time, at least six of Shakespeare's plays had been produced. History influenced many of his writings. One of Shakespeare’s most proclaimed plays was based on the life and death of Julius Caesar. He gathered information about Caesar…