“... whole gang of armed, overcoated men ran out of the forest and knifed the professor, as if he were Julius Caesar. None of this is in slow motion, but it feels as if it might be, since the whole thing is so lovingly photographed, as though the film were carefully constructing a ghastly but irresistible memory, finally building a real trauma. We get the ...”

“... only poète maudit to be successful’. Hitchcock succeeded, we learn, where Alexander, Julius Caesar and Napoleon failed: ‘in taking control of the universe’. But there is also a sense that America, and American film, are the great forces of evil in the world, and Godard’s own manifest affection for so many movies just disappears into ...”

“... bc) ends on a plea: ‘Let the work be what you like, but let it be one, single thing.’ When Julius Caesar brought a giraffe back to Rome from Alexandria in 46 bc (a gift, some said, from Cleopatra), the Romans, like Horace, saw a creature made of two parts. Cassius Dio wrote in his Historia Romana that it was ‘like a camel in all respects except ...”

“... dessert and brandy’ immediately before squeezing into a canvas corset to play Brutus in Julius Caesar. Later in the run, Welles found time during the performance to nip behind the theatre to Longchamps Diner for a snack: ‘generally a triple-decker steak sandwich washed down with bourbon’. Lunch, ‘inhaled’ (this is David Thomson’s ...”

“... Peter Ramus, Henri Estienne, his collaborator and printer in a variety of works, and to Julius Caesar Scaliger, who held him in high regard. As these connections suggest, although his associates in these years were Catholic, ‘the evidence,’ in McFarlane’s words, ‘points to Buchanan’s association with a great number of people who, to ...”

“... of masculinity … but there is something effeminate about being caught wearing one. Thus while Julius Caesar certainly wore a hat, he wasn’t carved into stone wearing it.’ His grossest generalisation is that ‘the decline of hats’, which Kennedy represented but did not cause, was ‘a result of the shift of American society from a network of ...”

“... to his friend Atticus (‘Ad Atticum’), his brother Quintus (‘Ad Quintum Fratrem’) and Caesar’s assassin, Marcus Brutus (‘Ad M. Brutum’). Lost for centuries, the letters enraptured Petrarch, providing him with a moment of first contact not unlike that of Howard Carter peering through the hole into Tutankhamun’s tomb and murmuring that he ...”

“... his aristocratic forebears (as Galba is made to note) included Pompey the Great, whose defeat by Julius Caesar in the civil wars of the 40s BCE heralded the advent of one-man rule. The adoption scene, in other words, makes a wonderfully suggestive opening to a narrative whose next stages will principally be concerned with imperial succession. Scratch ...”

“... have chosen to portray her in a strikingly wide range of contexts and poses: Cleopatra meets Julius Caesar; Cleopatra’s banquet; Cleopatra dissolves her pearls in a cup of vinegar; Cleopatra mourns in front of Antony’s tomb. But despite this variety, one thing suffices in any painting to identify a woman as Cleopatra: her snake. There is no need ...”

“... Arabs – rejecting en route the common view that it did not survive the fires in the city when Julius Caesar was besieged there in 48 BC. But underlying this apparently straightforward story is a much more complex set of problems: the connection of the library with despotic power; the role of the library in preserving (or failing to preserve) a ...”

“... disloyalty goes back much further than these spy novels of the 1970s. The first important text is Julius Caesar. In a broader view, Western culture has accorded an extraordinary standing to certain political subversives. The two men we think of as the towering examples of selfless virtue, Christ and Socrates, were put to death for political crime. It ...”

“... living there would doubt that this sphere was the work of a rational being?A year later, Julius Caesar was assassinated and the res publica plunged into renewed chaos, after decades of intermittent civil war. In the midst of these storms, Cicero’s belief that man-made models of the universe, like Posidonius’ sphere or the Antikythera ...”

“... allowed the oligarchy to endure, though names and faces might change. The alliance of Pompey and Julius Caesar had begun to fray, but it cast a shadow over everything else. Cicero still won trials far more often than he lost them, but he lacked the will and the ability to trim his sails to each passing breeze. He still wanted to steer a middle ...”

“... appear in Catullus’ work, but, unlike Lesbia, under their own names. Catullus’ father counted Julius Caesar among his friends. That did not prevent Catullus from writing some virulent invective against the great man and his entourage, especially his chief engineer, Mamurra. Mamurra appears under the pseudonym Mentula (‘Prick’) in several of ...”

“... that wants to change the constitution so that Trump can run again, had banners depicting him as Julius Caesar. Capitol rioters walked around with print-outs of their pardons. Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the ‘stolen election’ claim, was handing out a book called What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. At a ...”