Caesar is a Roman general and statesman. ... (galenet.gale.com) Marcus Brutus is a Roman nobleman and member of the Republic's most illustrious families. ... Caesar acquired a lot of fame and therefore much power in the Roman kingdom. ... Brutus thinks that if Caesar were to become the Roman Emperor, he would become a tyrant and endanger the Roman Empire. ... He is well liked by the Roman citizens. ...

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This paper will closely look at how Augustus transformed the Roman Republic into and empire, and why he was successful where Julius Caesar had not been. ... Caesar's rise to Power created resentments among many Romans. His most important problem, however, was that he was too powerful, the Roman Republic was ruled by a dominant few, which the powers were shared among the senators. ... The fact that the Republic needed a guiding hand was beyond doubt. ... In addition, the divided loyalties of highly politicized armies had been a plague on the Late Republic. ...

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Rome was a republic and they were proud of this. Romans were very patriotic, and did not want a monarchy, this was probably one of the reasons why Brutus and the conspirators felt it necessary to remove Caesar, as Antony had previously offers Caesar a kingly crown, and although he refused it, Brutus and the others felt it was possible he actually wanted to accept this, therefore posing a threat to their republic. ... Using a rhetorical string of three "Romans, countrymen, lovers!" ... He begins his oration to a mildly hostile crowd who were sufficiently satisfied with Brutus"...

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His achievements in the retrieval of Greek and Roman traditions, including rhetoric, and his attempts to follow classical style lead to the movement itself (Humanism: Italy" 2). ... It was during this expulsion that he wrote The Prince, which not only was based on previous Roman political examples, but it combined some humanistic ideals into his innovatory view of the state. ... Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic. ...

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