Notes-G1

Focus Questions:


 * 1) Who was Marcus Brutus? [|Roman] senator of the late [|Roman Republic]. He was one of [|Julius Caesar]'s [|assassins].
 * 2) What were his accomplishments? He married [|Porcia Catones] who was his first cousin and a daughter of Cato, and wrote a text praising his deceased father-in-law's qualities.
 * 3) What was his relationship with Caesar? Some sources refer to the possibility of Caesar being his real father, but this is probably gossip because Caesar was fifteen years old at the time of Brutus' birth and the affair with his mother started some ten years after.mistress of [|Julius Caesar].
 * 4) Describe his political career. His political career started when he became an assistant to Cato, during his governorship of [|Cyprus]. During this time, he enriched himself by loaning money to desperate people at high rates of interest.Brutus wrote Caesar with apologies and Caesar immediately forgave him. Caesar accepted him into his inner circle and made him governor of [|Gaul] when he left for [|Africa] in pursuit of Cato and [|Metellus Scipio]. In the next year ([|45 BC]), Caesar nominated him to be a [|praetor].
 * 5) What part did he play in Caesar's death death? ([|March 15]; see [|Roman calendar]) of [|44 BC], a group of senators including Brutus murdered Caesar on the steps of [|Pompey's Theater].
 * 6) What does Brutus do immediately following the death of Caesar?
 * 7) What part did Brutus play in what happens to Rome after Caesar's death?

Marc Antony


 * 1) Who was Marc Antony ?
 * 2) What were his accomplishments?
 * 3) What was his relationship with Caesar?
 * 4) Describe his political career.
 * 5) What did he do upon Caesar's death?
 * 6) What part did Antony play in what happens to Rome after Caesar's death
 * 7) ## Read Plutarch's [|description of the death of Caesar.]
 * 8) Do Antony and Brutus both give speeches after his death?
 * 9) Describe the actions of the Roman people after the opening of Caesar's will?
 * 10) What part did Antony play in this?