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…and Terence (whom Julius Caesar called "a half-Menander"), Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, even the writings of St. Paul ("Bad messages belie good manners"). In 1905 a manuscript was discovered…

…. The artistic side of his temperament was displayed in his writings and oratorical style, as well as in his paintings. He was a combination of soldier, writer, artist, and statesman. He was not so good as a mere party politician. Like Julius Caesar, he stands out…

…is usually known as The Period of the Great Tragedies and of the Sombre or Bitter Comedies (1601-07). Julius Caesar, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus…

…the ROMAN invasion of England with Julius Caesar. The Emperor of Rome, Hadrian, unable to capture Scotland built the Hadrian wall in AD122 to keep the Scottish out of his Roman civilisation in England. Wales fell to the Romans around AD80. The south of England…

…of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Augstus. As the last Greek ruler or Ptolemy, Cleopatra committed suicide in 30 BC by letting a poisonous snake bite her after Egypt fell to the forces of Rome. Queen Hatshepsut was a powerful woman who became…

…as he felt they were more respected by critics although audiences generally preferred comedies. After his publication of Julius Caesar, he was looked at as the greatest tragedian since Sophocles and was at the zenith of his literary capacity. The play…

…of classification, its causes, and its means of diagnosis and treatment that we were unable to answer to just a few years ago. Many notable figures in history have had epilepsy: Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Alfred Nobel, and Thomas Edison.26 Today…

…and riches that he could. Cortes did this in a time when there was a ruler be the name of Moctezuma who ruled most of the Aztec civilization, much the same as Julius Caesar ruled Rome or the way an Egyptian Pharos would have ruled Egypt. Moctezuma was the proud…

…temperaments. Julius Caesar (1599?), on the other hand, is a serious tragedy of political rivalries, but is less intense in style than the tragic dramas that followed it. Third Period Shakespeare's third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so…

…, such as, George Percy, son of the Earl of Northnumberland; children of Lord de la Warr and his wife, a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth; and the brother-in-law of Julius Caesar. But then again the most important political figures in Virginia were Spencer, Abraham Wood…