Cultural Depictions Of Julius Caesar
Gāius Jūlius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC), one of the most influential men in world history, has frequently appeared in literary and artistic works since ancient times.
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“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)
“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven’t been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren’t being manly enough.”
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“Surely, of all creatures we eat, we are most brutal to snails. Helix optera is dug out of the earth where he has been peacefully enjoying his summer sleep, cracked like an egg, and eaten raw, presumably alive. Or boiled in oil. Or roasted in the hot ashes of a wood fire.... If God is a snail, Bosch’s depictions of Hell are going to look like a vicarage tea-party.”
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“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)
“The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)