@Dimitri_B: He didn't actually say that there. according to one version, he said another phrase, according to another version he was silent. According to Suetonius, the last words of Gaius Julius were the phrase in Greek "καὶ σύ, τέκνον" ("And you, my child?"). According to Plutarch, Caesar said nothing when he saw Brutus among the assassins. The exclamation attributed to Caesar, who saw that Brutus was about to strike, "And you, Brutus?" is a quote from the play "Julius Caesar"[1] by William Shakespeare and is not contained in historical sources
A very tragic ending. It was obvious about Caesar from the very beginning, his death was not news here, but the wife of Lucius Vorenus is very sorry. He will blame himself for her death for the rest of his life.
If after watching the historical series (without controversy about full compliance with the documents) you wanted to read about the events, then the creators coped with their task. There is nothing more to say, before season 2 I will read about the life and deeds of the great ones. Ave!
"I don't want to jump into the arena, Cicero. So I have to please the people in a different way. - Build another temple, kill someone! It's easy for people to like it!
These two vile aunts have ruined so many people. One fool pushed her son into betrayal and murder because of personal accounts, the second one generally changed her shoes all season and shat on everyone she could reach, which is not surprising that her daughter, who is always at hand, got the most. (I missed the moment why she disliked Servilia so much and never understood why she was spoiling her life, but they are worth each other, two snakes)
@renatamarten: She didn't seem to like the fact that Caesar paid Servilia a lot of attention, she was jealous of her famous uncle. Atia helped them break up, and then they started putting sticks in each other's wheels.
I think she got overreacted with the fall from the balcony. I was in a hurry. But with Caesar, everything is very fast, I thought he would leave in the second season🤷🏽♂️
People who write "a great man was killed" - did you really not notice the main idea that we were led to throughout the season? We saw how Caesar usurped power, undermined trust in all public institutions in a few years, destroyed parliament, plunged the country into corruption. The conspirators against him talked about saving the republic, and it was not for nothing that they voiced to us exactly the form of government - they fought in many ways precisely for the ideals on which the whole state was based
@independence777: any competent historian will tell you that the republic outlived its usefulness by the first century BC. Caesar only accelerated the inevitable.
@independence777: What nonsense. By that time, the republic had rotted through and through, turning into an oligarchy, where most of the resources (loot, to put it simply) were distributed in favor of several aristocratic families. And corruption was no longer a vice, but a way of governing the country. The elite of the republic, to simplify it, was divided into two camps - populars and optimates. Optimates are the very oligarchs who sought to preserve the current state of things, when almost all the land belongs to them, all power belongs to them, the plebs have no rights. In contrast to the optimates, the populars sought to limit the power of the aristocracy, expand the civil liberties of the lower strata of the population and extend Roman law to Latins, Italians and other allies. And Caesar, surprisingly, belonged to the populars. And they killed him not because of "freedom", but because with his reforms he quite severely infringed on the interests of the aristocracy (in favor of the people, if it is still not clear, and not because he is a saint, but because the people were his support in power). In the series, in this very episode, this is fully reflected. And in previous episodes, too. So the main idea here is clearly not the one that you have come up with.
Moreover, Caesar could have avoided such a fate by clearing out the entire opposition. But he did not do this, forgiving them and allowing them to continue to remain in power. And here it is - gratitude. If he had followed Sulla's example, he would have died of old age.
In general, Rome then faced a fork in the road: either the aristocracy (for example, in the person of Cassius and Brutus) would defeat the centralizing forces (in the person of Sulla, Caesar, Octavian) and the country would collapse into several smaller oligarchies so that everyone would be more comfortable pumping out all the juices from their piece and not sharing, or centralization would defeat the aristocracy and the whole the fullness of power will be in one hand, but the country will survive. Sulla did not succeed, Caesar did it in a limited way, but Octavian coped.
It looks very stupid and as if an owl is being pulled on a globe, how can a slave whose husband was killed leave with his killer and even take his hands at the end of the series? Or is she still hatching an evil revenge plan, or does she have any priorities of her own
Well, Caesar is more liberal than the Senate. He made laws for citizens and pushed them into the power of ordinary people. And for the Senate, all tribes.
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38According to Suetonius, the last words of Gaius Julius were the phrase in Greek "καὶ σύ, τέκνον" ("And you, my child?"). According to Plutarch, Caesar said nothing when he saw Brutus among the assassins. The exclamation attributed to Caesar, who saw that Brutus was about to strike, "And you, Brutus?" is a quote from the play "Julius Caesar"[1] by William Shakespeare and is not contained in historical sources
Ave!
- Build another temple, kill someone! It's easy for people to like it!
Little has changed since the Roman Republic)))
(I missed the moment why she disliked Servilia so much and never understood why she was spoiling her life, but they are worth each other, two snakes)
Moreover, Caesar could have avoided such a fate by clearing out the entire opposition. But he did not do this, forgiving them and allowing them to continue to remain in power. And here it is - gratitude. If he had followed Sulla's example, he would have died of old age.
In general, Rome then faced a fork in the road: either the aristocracy (for example, in the person of Cassius and Brutus) would defeat the centralizing forces (in the person of Sulla, Caesar, Octavian) and the country would collapse into several smaller oligarchies so that everyone would be more comfortable pumping out all the juices from their piece and not sharing, or centralization would defeat the aristocracy and the whole the fullness of power will be in one hand, but the country will survive. Sulla did not succeed, Caesar did it in a limited way, but Octavian coped.