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    justify the murder of Julius Caesar? Were they right? Conspirators justify the murder of Julius Caesar by giving the following reasons: a) he wanted to be a king, b) he broke and manipulated the law, c) he went against their own people. Although they gave these reasons, the conspirators were wrong taking into their hands the life of such as a good leader as Julius Caesar was. This essay will first, establish and explain the reasons that conspirators had to kill Julius Caesar and second, it

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    Augustus paper In his seventy sixth year Julius Caesar was assassinated by several senators on August 19, 14 CE. (Mellor 1). After Julius Caesar’s death, Antony (one of Caesar’s closest advisors) was expected to rule after him, but little did anyone know that Caesar was very fond of his nephew who voyaged with him on several missions and secretly adopted this fellow who went by the name of Gaius Octavius. (Mellor 6) Octavius would soon go by the name Augustus and become one of the greatest leaders

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    Sophia Seo Mrs. Rufolo English 9 Honors 11-15-14 The Noblest Roman of Them All Meet Brutus, the man who made the phrase “stabbing a friend in the back” literal. He kept only the best of intentions in mind when he sacrificed his friendship for the better of the whole. He was considered a noble, naive idealist and patriotic politician by his fellow patricians. Due to his strong passion for Rome, this tragic hero was manipulated to turn against a dear friend. Marcus Brutus battled with his conflicting

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    What Is A Roman Tribune?

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    What is a Roman Tribune? That is the question we will be answering today. Let’s break it down. The definition of a tribune is, “a Roman official whose task it was to keep oppression from the people.” The tribunes basically kept the people from being persecuted or enslaved. They were under the generals but still respected highly. There’s usually only five to six in a legion and eventually that number grew to ten. As one could imagine, the word tribune is Latin. The root word is Latin. Tribunus is

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    Nicholas Okada 10/21/14 APWH Period 4 Book Review: The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti highlights the many significant people and events that characterized the late Roman Republic. Specifically, he focuses on the time period between the election of Tiberius Grachus, to the rise of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. In this account of history, Parenti presents the social, political, and economic aspects of the Roman culture

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    plays highlight the internal moral struggle that every man goes through, the concept of what is right and what is wrong in a world that is full of gray areas. More specifically he deals with the concept of honor and morality in several of his plays. Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Henry V, to a lesser extent, deal with how men handle these and can reconcile otherwise heinous acts. Now, being well aware that Shakespeare does not account for all the Renaissance writers, however his are the most prevalent still

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    role of the quaestor was to be in charge of the state treasury and how it was used throughout the armies and for state funding. They also served as aides to the consuls. In the beginning, the quaestor consisted of only two roles, but by the time of Julius Caesar, it had expanded into 40 positions. The age requirement varied, because it was changed often, but it was around twenty-two to thirty years old. The quaestors were elected by the comitia tribute, but Augustus moved this responsibility onto the

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    Shakespearean works such as Julius Caesar and Othello are acknowledged for their tragic endings and the deception that leads the characters there; however, few acknowledge that Shakespeare incorporated defense mechanisms such as repression, denial, and projection even before Freud’s theory on such mechanisms came to fruition. Additionally, Shakespeare provides evidence of betrayal as its own definitive defense mechanism, proving that it is in fact human nature to betray others. Julius Caesar is a story of

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    Alaina Martinez Business Leadership December 4, 2016 On July 12, 100 BCE (some say 102), Gaius Julius Caesar was born. His Mother was of noble birth and his father was the Praetor who governed the province of Asia. His parents supported the Populare ideology, “which  favored democratization of government and more rights for the lower class as opposed to the Optimate factions’ ideas of the superiority of the nobility and traditional Roman values which favored the upper classes. The Optimate and the

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    I am the most important resource ever. I cannot be created, destroyed, replicated, stored, distributed or reproduced. I come and go yet, I am constant. My existence, at least to the that you all can conceptualize me, began spontaneously with the inception of being in the Big Bang. Since then, I have seen the evolution and destruction of civilizations across the infinite cosmos, but I’ve always been partial to those of Earth. The manner in which humans manage to build these civilizations that build

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