Famous speeches – Friends Romans Countrymen

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how sweet!!!

Excellent speech one could give at that time.

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To know it better

awesome..!! shakespeare rocks…

Excellent speech one could give at that time.”

And waiting a thousand and six hundred and forty-two years before actually inventing it was a pretty excellent feature of it as well.

The ‘best’ historical reports on what happened at that time was that Marcus Antonius immediately left Rome on 15 March 44 B.C. upon being prevented – whether or not actually, as opposed to for propaganda purposes – from meeting up with Caesar while the latter was walking to the Roman Senate with his entourage, and that he did not return to Rome again until the next day, when it seemed sufficiently clear to him that he was not also a target of the assassination plot, and that it was safe for him return to Rome to use his role as then sole proconsul to seize sole control over the Republic’s treasury

In any event, this would mean that the scene drawn by William Shakespeare likely never happened, certainly not as he portrayed with Marcus Antonius speaking after Marcus Junius Brutus had delivered his own eulogy. It’s also worth emphasizing that Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius were the two Roman proconsuls coming into the date of the assassination, jointly charged with chief executive responsibility over the Republic of Rome, that the Republic’s accounts fell largely if not entirely within the responsibility of Marcus Antonius, and the Marcus Antonius himself was not and had not been deposed from his role as proconsul as a consequence of the assassination.

That does not mean necessarily that Shakespeare’s drama did not succeed in capturing the POSSIBLE essence of what Marcus Antonius then succeeded in doing, that is, in speaking to the Senate to placate not just the Senate and but other powerful factions, such as the leading military leaders, such that he could continue to serve out his term as proconsul, tho from that point on along with the newly proclaimed proconsul Dolabella, one of Marcus Antonius’ political rivals, as the substitute to carry out the remaining term of Gaius Junius Caesar to the end of that calendar year.

such an amazing speech . Mark Antony was really a true friend of Caesar

This is not the full speech…..after this speech the people begin to beg Antony to read Caesar’s will in which Caesar asked to give every roman 75 drachmas and his personal land.

The good is oft interred with their bones
So, let it be with Pm

Lovely! The good is oft interred with them, so let it be with Antony!

In referencing real history, most did not realize the powerful abilities of Octavius at the time. Caesar and his family were still mentoring him. Octavius had not been formally announced into public life, which at the time will give you your first military command.

The only facts we do know is that at some point Mark Antony made a public address, and afterward, the killers of Caesar lost power. So historians throughout history assumed that Antony’s address represented such a powerful statement because it immediately shifted the power back to Caesar allies. We do not know the mood of Rome at the time, pro-Caesar, pro-Cicero, or something in between. However after the Antony speech, Cisero lost half of Roman support to pursue Caesar allies. This diminished the fighting force that lead to Octavius and Antony to regain control of Rome.