The final offer of the crown occurred before a large crowd of Romans, when a crown was placed on Caesar's head he took it off and said "The Romans have no kings but their gods" (World Book Encyclopedia). ... Both say that at least sixty men were involved in the conspiracy, most of them senate members. Shakespeare's work says that only about eight men were part of the conspiracy, probably to cut down on the number of actors for the play. ... All of the sources also agree on when Caesar was killed. ... Artemidorus hands Caesar a scroll with the names of the men in the conspiracy and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He describes Antony's generosity and how popular he was with his men, and cuts out suggestions of Cleopatra's disloyalty. ... Then comes another move, to kings and princes and servants wearing his livery, and finally a cosmic image of liberality, "realms and islands" carelessly dropped, like coins from his pocket. ... Also, in Act I Scene V, Cleopatra recalls the great men who have been her lovers (lines 30-35). To "stand," "grow" and "die" all suggest sexual arousal. However, Antony is her man of men, and there is a passionate intensity in her vision of him. ...

• Word Count: 2297
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• Grade Level: High School

The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by Sulla. ... After his defeat of the Belgic tribes in the north and the submission of the maritime tribes on the Atlantic seaboard, he believed that the task had all but been accomplished. ... Caesar's military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with Roman tradition, reflecting as they did the extravagant distinctions accorded earlier to the Hellenistic...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8

The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by Sulla. ... After his defeat of the Belgic tribes in the north and the submission of the maritime tribes on the Atlantic seaboard, he believed that the task had all but been accomplished. ... Caesar's military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with Roman tradition, reflecting as they did the extravagant distinctions accorded earlier to the Hellenistic...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8

The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by Sulla. ... After his defeat of the Belgic tribes in the north and the submission of the maritime tribes on the Atlantic seaboard, he believed that the task had all but been accomplished. ... Caesar's military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with Roman tradition, reflecting as they did the extravagant distinctions accorded earlier to the Hellenistic...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8