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I need help understanding this girl?
12-10-2012, 04:28 AM
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Et tu, Brute? translated into English means, you too, Brutus? But the quote is generally considered inaccurate and a fiction of Shakespeare's. More then likely he said "my son".

The ironic point of Caesar's death was that the assassination took place in the Pompiean Theater where the Senate was meeting on that day, which was named Gneaus Pompey, the man Caesar had recently defeated in Rome's most recent Civil War.

The conspirators largely felt they had rid Rome of a tyrant and urged celebration, but were quickly forced out of Rome and into another civil war by Caesar's Master of the Horse, Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), and Caesar's nephew and "heir" Octavius, later to be named Augustus.

Again, any promise made by Brutus to Antony was probably a fiction created by Shakespeare.

Do not use William Shakespeare as a historical author. He was an actor, not an historian. If you want a discription of Caesar's life by people born before the twentieth century your best sources will be Suetonius and Plutarch, who were both historians who wrote in the Second Century. Translations of Plutarch's Lives and Suetonius's Twelve Caesars should be in most bookstores.
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