Tobias Menzies tells Noam Friedlander why he hails the return of the BBC's lavish and lusty Roman series. Tobias Menzies has blood on his hands. Caesar’s blood no less. On Wednesday night he stars as ...
A gold coin depicting Marcus Junius Brutus—the Roman senator who assassinated Julius Caesar, fatally stabbing him 23 times with a group of co-conspirators—has sold for €1.98 million (just over $2 ...
The exact number of conspirators involved in Caesar's death is unknown, with estimates varying between forty to sixty senators and noblemen. However, out of all of those men, three names stand out: ...
A haughty and somewhat aloof young patrician. The fact that his ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus killed Tarquin, the last despot to rule Rome 200 years before, creates a heavy burden of expectations that ...
A haughty and somewhat aloof young patrician. The fact that his ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus killed Tarquin, the last despot to rule Rome 200 years before, creates a heavy burden of expectations that ...
Today's post is a digression into Roman history and etymology, two of my long-time interests. In Act III, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony famously pronounces not once but ...
A gold coin depicting Marcus Junius Brutus—the Roman senator who assassinated Julius Caesar, fatally stabbing him 23 times with a group of co-conspirators—has sold for €1.98 million (just over $2 ...