Julius Caesar, the Roman ruler who defeated almost all the countries in Europe about 2,000 years ago, used a cipher when he sent secret messages to his troops. During the American Revolution, George Washington's spies used a kind of code to send him information about the enemy before his ...
Julius CaesarThe Merchant of VeniceWhile in his teens, in 1934, with the assistance of his former teacher Roger Hill, Orson Welles produced Everybody's Shakespeare, a three-volume work comprising acting editions of Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night and designed as a ...
The stage of human life to which Shakespeare most consistently attaches a pathetic significance is, of course, childhood and early youth. The young princes inRichard III, Arthur inKing John, Falstaff's page inHenry IVandHenry V, the boy, Lucius, inJulius Caesar, inMacbeth, the son of Macduf...
What is the significance of the statue of Oliver Cromwell in Westminster? What behavior was forbidden on Sundays during Oliver Cromwell's rule? What was Benedict Arnold's childhood like? What was Julius Caesar's childhood like? What was Nathanael Greene's childhood like? Who was Henry Tudor's...
On the Ides of March, 44 BC, the most famous Roman in history was murdered. Julius Caesar’s killers hoped to save the Republic, but in the end they destroyed it. In the six episodes of Caesar: Death of a Dictator, Rob Attar is joined by a group of expert historians to revisit thes...
Caligula, or Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, is seen as one of the most unpredictable and cruel emperors in history. While he is well known, he is arguably the least understood. The information about Gaius has been unfairly shaped by both ancient and modern sources. The senate, the ...