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queenlucythevaliant · 2 years ago

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The assassination of Julius Caesar in fiction

The October Horse by Colleen McCullough // The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder //Cleopatra (1963) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz // A Piller of Iron by Taylor Caldwell // The October Horse, McCullough // Caesar (1937) dir. Orson Welles // Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran // Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare // The October Horse, McCullough

#my humble contribution #so i actually had a pretty intense Julius Caesar fixation a number of years ago #i came downstairs after a migraine and found my dad watching Cleopatra (1963)#in which I learned that Caesar had epilepsy #the kind of migraine that I get is closely related to epilepsy #so i just. instantly identified super hard?? with this long-dead roman dictator????#i binge read about him for a good six months. fiction and nonfiction. my friends were very confused #so yeah #i mentioned the ides of march in an RUF large group and discovered that none of my peers knew what the heck i was talking about #so when I joined this site and discovered how enthusiastically everyone observes i was thrilled #and continue to be thrilled #the way that this site caters to my weird niche interests is truly remarkable #anyway. happy ides of march to all who observe #and happy death day to my problematic historical chronic illness bro 😂#intertextuality #pontifications and creations #would highly recommend most of the texts referenced here btw #particularly October Horse

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