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  Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Quotes: Julius Caesar: And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.
Caesar's aide-de-camp is an affable bear of a man named Rufio (Basil Sydney), who mainly just keeps his eye on Caesar.
Cleopatra is likewise sheltered by her scheming counselor Ftatateeta (Flora Robson), a name that not even Caesar can pronounce.
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 Cleopatra
Cleopatra showed directly she was talented, she instaured new laws, she devaluated the money by one third for the exportations.
Cleopatra becomes Queen of Egypt at the age of 18 (51 B.C.) She rapidly tries to solve the conflict with the Roman Empire.
Cleopatra is worried about that and cries, she tries to persuade Antony to stay in Egypt to protect her.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Shores/7037/cleo.htm   (3084 words)

  
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Cleopatra watches her submission eagerly, almost clapping her hands, which are trembling.
Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
ACT IV Cleopatra's sousing in the east harbor of Alexandria was in October 48 B. In March 47 she is passing the afternoon in her boudoir in the palace, among a bevy of her ladies, listening to a slave girl who is playing the harp in the middle of the room.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext02/candc10.txt   (18684 words)

  
 Cleopatra Plot Summary
Cleopatra and Caesar continue the dueling, including an encounter in her bath.
Caesar at last departs to return to Rome to a Triumph - a huge parade-like event where the conquering hero is honored.
Caesar is made 'dictator-for-life' and at last calls for Cleopatra to come to Rome.
www.historyinfilm.com /cleo/cleoplt1.htm   (985 words)

  
 Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra VII & Ptolemy XIII
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
Caesar had restored her position, but she now had to marry her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, who was eleven years old.
Caesar only left the boat to attend important business in Syria just a few weeks before the birth of their son, Caesarion (Ptolemy Caesar) who was born on June 23, 47 BC.
interoz.com /egypt/cleopatr.htm   (2922 words)

  
 Drama: Caesar and Cleopatra
But this Caesar does not pit man against man: he throws a legion at you where you are weakest as he throws a stone from a catapult; and that legion is as a man with one head, a thousand arms, and no religion.
CAESAR [a little preoccupied, goes with a sigh to Ptolemy's chair, whilst she waits for his answer with red cheeks and clenched fist] You are free to do just as you please, Cleopatra.
CLEOPATRA [kneeling beside him and looking at him with eager interest, half real, half affected to shew how intelligent she is] You must not talk to me now as if I were a child.
drama.eserver.org /plays/modern/caesar_and_cleopatra.html   (15329 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The October Horse : A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra: Books: Colleen McCullough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caesar may be the nominal protagonist of this last novel in a series of six chronicling the demise of the Roman Republic, but the presiding spirit is that of Octavian (later Augustus), Caesar's successor and Rome's first emperor.
In "The October Horse," Caesar is finishing the civil war against Pompey's forces (especially against Cato the Younger), developing a liaison and an alliance with Cleopatra in Egypt and returning to Rome to begin to reform the system until his enemies assassinate him in the Senate.
Caesar's rise to power is described in the next three books, and at the beginning of the October Horse, he is at the peak of his power.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684853310?v=glance   (3540 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Caesar & Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra are locked in a struggle to determine the amount of independence Egypt will have.
The players, as Caesar and Cleopatra, use their influence and special actions to win patricians to their side.
As Caesar or Cleopatra, with your own decks of beautifully detailed Influence and Action cards, you fight to gain the support of five groups of Roman patriarchs, represented by columns of three or five cards.
www.funagain.com /cgi-bin/funagain/07364   (820 words)

  
 Cleopatra
She led a revolt against her brother, and, obtaining the aid of Julius Caesar, she won the kingdom, although it remained a vassal of Rome.
He fell hopelessly in love with her, and Cleopatra, conscious of her royalty and even her claims to divinity as the pharaoh's daughter, seems to have hoped to use Antony to reestablish the real power of the Egyptian throne.
Cleopatra's Needles - Cleopatra's Needles, name in popular use for two obelisks of red granite from Egypt.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0812535.html   (532 words)

  
 *** The House of Ptolemy: Caesar, Cleopatra, & Marcus Antonius - the Transition to a Greco-Roman (Roman Imperial) ...
Caesar's campaign in Egypt, from the autumn of 48 BCE to March of 47 BCE, was a self-contained episode in the career of Rome's greatest general.
The Cleopatra Ode, a poem by Horace, opens with a bold juxtaposition of archaic Greek literature and contemporary Roman life, as the poet moves in mid-sentence from a motto taken from Alcaeus to an allusion to the contemporary Roman feasts of the Salii.
This was: *** The House of Ptolemy: Caesar, Cleopatra, and Marcus Antonius and
www.houseofptolemy.org /housecle.htm   (3393 words)

  
 Game Zombies: Review of Caesar & Cleopatra
Ceasar and Cleopatra are vying for the power over Egypt behind the scenes.
With the clever placement of influential attendants, each of the Patricians in the Senate become cogs in the political machines of Caesar or Cleopatra.
Both Caesar and Cleopatra, place influence cards face down under each group.
www.angelfire.com /games/zombiereviews/reviews/caesarandcleorvw.html   (564 words)

  
 Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caesar: you have taught Cleopatra the arts by which the Romans govern the world.
You are to be her catspaw: you are to tear the crown from her brother's head and set it on her own, delivering us all into her hand- delivering yourself also.
CLEOPATRA [striking her on the mouth] Strike his life out as I strike his name from your lips.
www.4literature.net /George_Bernard_Shaw/Caesar_and_Cleopatra/34.html   (612 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Caesar and Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This version of Caesar and Cleopatra is an historical farce.
Shaw's Caesar is a man of self-doubt and good humor, a vivid counterpoint to the haughty, aristocratic Caesar of Shakespeare.
This is one of the small number of films I can see over and over and still enjoy, even though, or perhaps because, every line of dialog is familiar.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792845870   (456 words)

  
 Game Review: Caesar and Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a two-player card game that has Republic Rome as its backdrop.
The players, representing Caesar and Cleopatra try to influence senators in Rome to side with their faction.
A simple game with simple mechanics and enough "special effects" to make it interesting for multiple playings.
homer.pacific.net.sg /~grognard/games/review/candc.htm   (340 words)

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