![]() ![]() Politically, he had sided with conservative politicians like Cicero and Cato, who wanted to defend the rights of the Senate against the generals. Meanwhile, Brutus served as military commander in Cilicia and Macedonia. The chances of a civil war were growing every day. Two generals had become very powerful: Pompey, who controlled Rome and Hispania, and Caesar, who was conquering Gaul and had acquired a fine army, lots of money, and enormous popularity. Meanwhile, the situation in Rome was becoming dangerous. The next governor of Cilicia, Marcus Tullius Cicero, was to condemn this behavior. Brutus was responsible for the taxes in a province called Cilicia (where his father-in-law was governor), and used the opportunity (and the army of Cilicia) to settle accounts in Cyprus. In 53, he was chosen quaestor: he now occupied the financial magistracy that a Roman politician had to occupy when he started his career. As a rich man, he returned to Rome, where he married a woman named Claudia. We happen to know that Brutus offered his help the city of Salamis, which desperately needed help the loan had an interest of no less than 48%. Caesar had a good reason for this: he had an affair with Brutus' mother, and he did not want to bring the young man, whom he had often met at the house of his mistress, into troubles.ĭuring the next two or three years, Brutus was with Cato on Cyprus, which had been conquered by Pompey and was finally in annexed in 58. In fact, there was no such conspiracy, and one of the consuls of that year, the popular politician Gaius Julius Caesar, an ally of Pompey, did his best to get rid of the accusations. In 59, a man named Vettius declared that Brutus and several other men were part of a conspiracy to kill Pompey. To honor his adoptive father, the young man started to call himself Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio. ![]() The boy was educated by the half-brother of his mother Servilia, Marcus Porcius Cato, and was later adopted by a relative of his mother, Quintus Servilius Caepio. Father Brutus was killed in 78 by Gnaeus Pompey, a young general who was to become famous. Marcus Junius Brutus was born in or about 85 BCE, as the eldest son of a Roman politician with the same name, a man who never made it to the top. Three pagans (Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar), three Jews (Joshua, David, Judas Maccabaeus), three Christians (Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon or Guy of Warwick) Hercules and Pompey the Great are (unusually) included by the players in LLL V.Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (c.85-42): Roman politician, murderer of Gaius Julius Caesar and one of the last defenders of the republic. Roman emperor, 1st-c, who slew his mother, Agrippina supposed to have played on his lute while watching Rome burn considered a model of crueltyīelgian tribe, defeated by Caesar in 57 BC Greek athlete, 6th-c BC, who carried an ox around the stadium at Olympia then ate it all in a single day The prophet Mohammed founder of Islam, 7th-c Machiavelli early 16th-c Italian political theorist, associated with stratagem and cunning Spartan legislator, 7th-c BC, legendary for wisdom Legendary Roman heroine, 6th-c BC, who killed herself after being raped by Tarquin subject of The Rape of Lucrece Tarquin below Tullus Hostilius, third king of Rome, 7th-c BC St Helena, 3rd-c, mother of Constantine the Great Britain, usually named as CunobelinusĬyrus the Great, 6th-c BC, king of Persiaĭarius the Great, 6th-c BC king of Persia Khan or oriental emperor emperor of ChinaĬharlemagne, king of the Franks in 768-814 great patron of learning Nine Worthies belowįriend and commander of Alexander, killed by him in a quarrel Alexander aboveĮgyptian queen in 1st-c BC character in Antony and CleopatraĬaius Martius, defender of the early Roman republic in 5th-c BC character in CoriolanusĬeltic king in 1st-c. Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman senator, 1st-c BC, a leader of the plot to kill Julius CaesarĪ Roman noble, a conspirator against the Roman Republic in 62 BCĬato the Elder, 2nd-c BC Roman politicianĬato the Younger, 1st-c BC Roman politician, and opponent of CaesarĬaius Marcius Rutilus, 3rd-c BC Roman politician Roman politician and general character in Julius Caesarīritish king in 1st-c., brother or ( III.i.5) uncle of Cymbeline Marcus Junius Brutus 1st-c BC Roman politician, involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar character in Julius Caesar Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman republic in 509 BC Roman leader in 1st-c BC character in Antony and Cleopatra Alexander the Great Macedonian king in 4th-c BC, known for his extensive empire
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