The Ides of March
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Thornton Wilder |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Valerio Massimo Manfredi |
Publisher | : McArthur & Co |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1770870261 |
The 15th of March, 44 BCE. A day of infamy. A day that fascinates scholars and writers. A crucial moment for humanity. The date of the assassination of the man who could have radically changed the history of the world. With THE IDES OF MARCH, Manfredi revisits the three days in the life of Julius Caesar that led to his assassination in the Senate - a death that set off waves of repercussions throughout the Roman world and beyond.
Author | : Barry Strauss |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451668813 |
A professor of history and classics describes the actual events of March 15, 44 BC, when Julius Caesar was murdered during the Roman civil wars, and comparies them to those outlined by William Shakespeare in his famous play.--Publisher's description.
Author | : Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2010-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470543809 |
Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar bring death on himself by planning to make himself king of Rome? Was Mark Antony aware of the plot, and let it go forward? Who wrote Antony's script after Caesar's death? Using historical evidence to sort out these and other puzzling issues, historian and award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins takes you to the world of ancient Rome and recaptures the drama of Caesar's demise and the chaotic aftermath as the vicious struggle for power between Antony and Octavian unfolded. For the first time, he shows how the religious festivals and customs of the day impacted on the way the assassination plot unfolded. He shows, too, how the murder was almost avoided at the last moment. A compelling history that is packed with intrigue and written with the pacing of a first-rate mystery, The Ides will challenge what you think you know about Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire.
Author | : Douglas Boin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393635708 |
Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive. Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted. The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world.
Author | : Bruce Miller |
Publisher | : Pacific Trust Holdings Nz Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781991048530 |
Psychic thriller based on a true story! A student is told a horrific story by a psychic who breaks down in tears as she foresees a young girl martyred by criminals and beseeches him to prevent it. Years later the events begin!
Author | : Julius Caesar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 069121669X |
"Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army - a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author. Could such a campaign autobiography ever be a great work of literature - perhaps even one of the greatest? It would be easy to think not, but such a book exists -and it helped transform Julius Caesar from a politician on the make into the Caesar of legend. This remarkable new translation of Caesar's famous but underappreciated War for Gaul captures, like never before in English, the gripping and powerfully concise style of the future emperor's dispatches from the front lines in what are today France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. While letting Caesar tell his battle stories in his own way, distinguished classicist James O'Donnell also fills in the rest of the story in a substantial introduction and notes that together explain why Gaul is the "best bad man's book ever written"--A great book in which a genuinely bad person offers a bald-faced, amoral description of just how bad he has been. Complete with a chronology, a map of Gaul, suggestions for further reading, and an index, this feature-rich edition captures the forceful austerity of a troubling yet magnificent classic - a book that, as O'Donnell says, 'gets war exactly right and morals exactly wrong.'" -- Front jacket flap
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0618724834 |
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
Author | : Craig McGuire |
Publisher | : Strategic Media Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781939521354 |
"What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan all have in common? HINT: They share the same fateful phenomenon that afflicted the Titanic, the Deepwater Horizon, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Facility, the Exxon Valdez and so many more. From John Belushi to John Candy, Sharon Tate to Watergate, countless ill-fated pop stars, politicians and personalities also suffered tragically from this eerie link. Give up? They all fell victim to sudden, sick twists of epic bad luck during the third month of the year, sending them spinning off into catastrophic disaster -- proof that March is, and always has been, the unluckiest month of all. Just ask Julius Caesar,"--Amazon.com
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Akasha Classics |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2010-02-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781603033794 |
What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.