The opera is set in Egypt under the joint rule of Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy in 48 B.C. Julius Caesar has defeated his enemy Pompey but is outraged when Pompey’s ally Ptolemy kills ...
Famous ancient Stoic Porcia Cato was a woman of firm political convictions. She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an 1840 ...
On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” ...