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Julius Caesar (1953)
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The fear of Caesar becoming autocrat... ending the Roman Republic, grew stronger when someone placed a diadem on the statue of Caesar on the Rostra. The tribunes, Gaius Epidius Marcellus and Lucius Caesetius Flavius, removed the diadem. Not long after the incident with the diadem, the same two tribunes had citizens arrested after they called out the title Rex to Caesar as he passed by on the streets of Rome. Now seeing his supporters threatened, Caesar acted harshly. He ordered those arrested to be released, and instead took the tribunes before the Senate and had them stripped of their positions. Caesar had originally used the sanctity of the Tribunes as one reason for the start of the civil war, but now revoked their power for his own gain.
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Book Description Caesar Against Rome is an absorbing narrative of the four-year Roman Civil War that began with Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BCE. Focusing always on Caesar, the book sketches a panorama of Roman society--the first society to display the ambition, greed, and intrigue of modern politics--in the last century before Christ. Caesar was a complex and contradictory figure, extraordinarily talented and extremely ambitious, but at the same time vain, careless, and inclined to be forgiving. While Caesar's unusual clementia was a major factor in winning popular support, soldiers, and towns to his side, it allowed virtually all enemy leaders to return to the battlefield against him.
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Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the Trojan prince Aeneas, himself the son of the goddess Venus. The branch of the gens Julia which bore the cognomen "Caesar" was descended, according to Pliny the Elder, from a man who was born by caesarian section (from the Latin verb to cut, caedo, -ere, caesus sum). The Historia Augusta suggests three alternative explanations of the name: that the first Caesar killed an elephant (caesai in Moorish) in battle; that he had a thick head of hair (Latin caesaries); or that he had bright grey eyes (Latin oculis caesiis).
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Julius Caesar (1953) comes in stark, immaculately detailed black-and-white, marred only by slight grain. Its sound, like that of Bounty, is splendid, with dynamic multitrack surround elements remixed in flawless Dolby Digital 5.1 — particularly sonorous in Miklós Rózsa's magnificent score.
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These sites contain information about ancient Rome, Julius Caesar, or some of both. Please be aware that Julius Caesar lived in the Late Republic period of Rome's history (he died in 44 B.C.), so information about life in the Roman Empire may not entirely apply to Caesar's time specifically.
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Sir Charles Mackerras stays true to his own vision in his capacity as conductor of this ENO production of Handel's Julius Caesar, as the working edition of the opera is based upon his own. Dame Janet Baker stars as Julius Caesar (a role assumed in the Baroque era by a succession of castrati).
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