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More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the ...
Etruscan influencesPart lion, goat, and snake, the “Chimera of Arezzo,” a 5th-century B.C. bronze sculpture ... and his friend Lucius Junius Brutus what had happened. Lucretia urged them ...
However, the monarchists did not resign themselves to defeat and attempted to restore the previous form of government through a plot involving several notable figures—including, ironically, two sons ...
His company’s audacious decision to mount Richard III - at the same time as a neighboring production featuring English tragedian Junius Brutus Booth ... to the power of art as resistance.
Gladiatorial games (munera) were introduced to Rome in 264 BC, when the sons of Junius Brutus honored their father by matching ... They love whom they lower; they despise whom they approve; the art ...
Accounts of the largely lost history of the African Grove Theatre include references to a sign that supposedly hung at the downtown New York venue founded by William Alexander Brown: “White people do ...
But Marcus Junius Brutus still chose to put his own likeness on a coin after leading the conspiracy to kill the politician. It then became regular practice for Roman coins, and as monetary systems ...
This event, organised by the sons of Decimus Junius Brutus Pera, involved combat between three pairs ... They have been romanticised in literature, art, and modern media, symbolising courage, ...
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 ...
Featuring the Roman politician and assassin of Julius Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus, the coin has been called “one of the most iconic and historically significant coins in all of Roman history.” ...
is one of the most famous events in Roman history. The conspiracy was led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who once were close allies of Caesar. More than 60 other senators were ...