Rome is situated in the central Mediterranean sea . The villages adjacent to Tiber river became a powerful city, conquering the rest of Italy and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. ... 'Serpent of old Nile' ,Cleopatra has great impact on Roman rulers because her love is the delicious poison for the Roman's ruler which has no panacea .Cleopatra symbolizes the feminine nature of the East which attracts West towards herself....

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Caesar was such an amazing man that many people couldn't believe that he was born the same way as them. ... Marius was a politician, he was a "new man" or a plebeian politician. ... Caesar was a very handsome boy and for that matter man too. ... He was rather tall for a man from his time, he grew to be about five feet eight inches tall. ... In 74 BC, the twenty-six year old, Caesar, went back to Rome to try and jump-start his career again. ...

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Later he married an older woman named Ann Hathaway and had three children. ... I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. ... But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. ... Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. ... On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." ...

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When the Greeks finally entered Troy after ten long years of siege, a man named Aeneas escaped the city with his father, Anchises, and his son, Ascanius. ... Accounts Livy, "Not without good reason did gods and men choose this spot as the site of a city, with its bracing hills, its [spacious] river by means of which the produce of inland countries may be brought down and inland supplies obtained; a sea near enough for all useful purposes, but not so near as to be exposed to danger from foreign fleets; a district in the very center of Italy, in a word, a position singularly adapted by a nature...

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