Julius Caesar as a Political Play

Introduction

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Decius Brutus and Mark Antony, both Roman Senators, eulogize Julius Caesar, each using a different technique and approach. Brutus, in a somewhat arrogant, to the point, eulogy, attempts to sway the people. He justifies conspiring against Caesar by stating that Caesar's ambition would have hurt Rome. However, in Antony's eulogy, he focuses on Caesar's positive traits, and cunningly disproves Brutus' justification for killing Caesar. The fickle Romans waver between leaders, responding emotionally, rather than intellectually, to the orators (George, 65-236).

Julius Caesar as a Political Play

As a politician, Julius Caesar designed the Roman Empire, and, as a soldier is the greatest general in history as the greatest writer in Latin, as a lawyer enacted laws that are the mainstay of Roman law, as reformed the calendar astronomer leaving our current 12 months and 365 days. It was he who at Romanize Western Europe was the foundation of our Western Culture Caesar is the triumph of intelligence, but above all, Caesar was great and he knew it was. Yet never consciously placed above any other: He let history speak for itself. The year was 100 BC 653 years since the founding of Rome (Belanger, 195-209).

Related to the gens Julia, the family of Caesar, by his marriage with his aunt, the lovely Julia, Mario tried to carry out an ambitious program of reforms that would strengthen Rome integrating all of Italy in the state apparatus, but the Senate Led by the ultra-conservative faction was not willing to stop considering everything that lay beyond the walls of the city as their independent estate. Since those years, the Italian people did not enjoy Roman citizenship, but they were considered allies (Ashplant, 253-74).

In addition, the war broke out between Rome and Italy. This was Gaius Marius consul for the seventh time, but the old soldier could not celebrate his victory this time and would die shortly afterwards in Rome, old, almost crippled, tired and completely disillusioned with everything. However, Julius Caesar's work would continue his faithful follower Cinna, whose daughter Cornelia married the young Gaius Julius Caesar in 84 BC and Caesar was appointed flamen dialis or priest of Jupiter at the age of 16 years (Alden, 268-74).

Caesar used the occasion to ask him Sila dismiss from his post as flamen dialis, a charge that the ambitious young man felt that bound him hand and foot in his career, which Sulla was delighted to accept, as Caesar, though a member of the oldest Roman family, he had enough assets to be a senator and if I left the priesthood, would also leave his seat in the Senate of Rome. So Caesar descended the ladder class senatorial Rome equestrian order. In addition, to get rid of him, Sulla sent him as a military officer who fought in Minucius Thermo East. At this location, the sweet young girl amazed everyone by winning the famous civic crown (the highest award value Roman) in 81 BC during the assault on the ...