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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“It does not disturb me that those whom I pardon are said to have deserted me so that
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myself and they to themselves.”
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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.”
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“People willingly believe what they want to believe.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)