Written in a letter with which Caesar informed the Roman Senate of his victory over Vercingetorix in 52 BC

History Lessons (1972), based on Brecht’s novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar, placed history in relation to modern political life. As Marxist dialecticians, Straub and Huillet created severe cinematic critiques of capitalism in a manner that paralleled the works of Brecht in the theatre. Straub once stated: “I don’t know if I’m a Marxist. I don’t know, because there are so many ways to be Marxist. I haven’t read all of Marx. Marxism is a method, it’s not an ideology.” Roma için sistemli sömürü yöntemleri bulan ve uygulayan, çağdaş emperyalist düzenin ilk harçlarının atıldığı kılıç ve hisse senedi işbirliğini, böl ve yönet politikalarını tarihte ilk uygulayan bir insan anlatılıyor. Julius Caesar, a radical aristocrat of unbounded ambition, and a successful commander and politician, gained wealth and glory by conquering Gaul, then won supreme power in a civil war. He destroyed the Roman Republic and seemed to be moving toward monarchy, but was assassinated before he could complete his plans. Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. Consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant, quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere.As reported in Plutarch's Anthony'; William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look." In Fortini/Cani (1976), the Italian writer Franco Fortini examined his thoughts on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, took the form of six dialogues between mythological figures on the partisan movement in Piedmont during the second world war. Ma tutto viene fatto per puro opportunismo e calcolo economico: si temono più le migliaia di schiavi asiatici che la spada di Pompeo, capaci col loro numero di far crollare il prezzo degli schiavi locali e, di riflesso, di mandare sul lastrico piccoli contadini e artigiani, avvantaggiando di fatto gli onnipotenti latifondisti della classe senatoria e impedendo alle banche, ossia alla city, di rientrare dei loro crediti e investimenti. Non a caso la principale preoccupazione di Cesare non sono gli avversari politici o le grandi questioni sociali irrisolte, ma il bisogno continuo e incessante di soldi. Montagne di soldi, necessari per la guerra sotterranea quotidiana con i grandi poteri della Roma del tempo, il Senato e la sua classe di ricchissimi parassiti aristocratici da una parte, la city finanziaria dall'altra. Senato che fa, tra l'altro, una pessima impressione coi suoi membri più celebri (Catone, Cicerone), mentre la city, cinica e opportunista, decide a un certo punto di puntare tutto su Cesare, dopo aver mollato Catilina e temendo l'ombra minacciosa di Pompeo, di ritorno dai trionfi asiatici. De Bello Gallico [ edit ] He seated himself at the head of the lines in front of the camp, the Gallic chieftains are brought before him. They surrender Vercingetorix, and lay down their arms. Commentarii de Bello Gallico [ Commentaries on the Gallic War]

As well as describing Caesar's activities at this crucial period, Brecht presents the essential difficulty of explaining historical events coherently: in an echo of his dramatic theories - stressing the audience's task of interpretation rather than passive acceptance - we have to work out our own views about Caesar.

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Tertulla was the wife of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, and the mother of his two sons. [1] Biography [ edit ] Suetonius: The Life of Julius Caesar (Latin and English, cross-linked: the English translation by J.C.Rolfe) Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit. Jean-Marie Straub, film director, screenwriter and producer, born 8 January 1933; died 19 November 2022 There are few areas of modern theatrical culture that have not felt the impact or influence of Brecht's ideas and practices; dramatists and directors in whom one may trace a clear Brechtian legacy include: Dario Fo, Augusto Boal, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Peter Weiss, Heiner Müller, Pina Bausch, Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill. In addition to the theatre, Brechtian theories and techniques have exerted considerable sway over certain strands of film theory and cinematic practice; Brecht's influence may be detected in the films of Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, Ritwik Ghatak, Lars von Trier, Jan Bucquoy and Hal Hartley.

Bertolt Brecht, The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar (2016), p. 23; quoted in Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language (2019) by Nicola Gardini, p. 72 On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499Sunt item, quae appellantur alces. Harum est consimilis capris figura et varietas pellium, sed magnitudine paulo antecedunt mutilaeque sunt cornibus et crura sine nodis articulisque habent neque quietis causa procumbunt neque, si quo adflictae casu conciderunt, erigere sese aut sublevare possunt. His sunt arbores pro cubilibus: ad eas se applicant atque ita paulum modo reclinatae quietem capiunt. Quarum ex vestigiis cum est animadversum a venatoribus, quo se recipere consuerint, omnes eo loco aut ab radicibus subruunt aut accidunt arbores, tantum ut summa species earum stantium relinquatur. Huc cum se consuetudine reclinaverunt, infirmas arbores pondere adfligunt atque una ipsae concidunt.

Note left on a statue of Caesar in Rome, prior to the Ides of March, as reported in Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars, as translated by Robert Graves (1957), Divus Iulius ¶ 80 In that man were combined genius, method, memory, literature, prudence, deliberation, and industry. He had performed exploits in war which, though calamitous for the republic, were nevertheless mighty deeds. Having for many years aimed at being a king, he had with great labor, and much personal danger, accomplished what he intended. He had conciliated the ignorant multitude by presents, by monuments, by largesses of food, and by banquets; he had bound his own party to him by rewards, his adversaries by the appearances of clemency. Why need I say much on such a subject? He had already brought a free city, partly by fear, partly by patience, into a habit of slavery. With him I can, indeed, compare you [ Mark Antony] as to your desire to reign; but in all other respects you are in no degree to be compared to him. Said when crossing the river Rubicon with his legions on 10 January, 49 BC, thus beginning the civil war with the forces of Pompey. The Rubicon river was the boundary of Gaul, the province Caesar had the authority to keep his army in. By crossing the river, he had committed an invasion of Italy. Bu kitabında edebi bir kaygı gözetmediği anlaşılıyor, hedefi herkesin övgü ve hayranlıkla söz ettiği Sezar’ın efsaneliğinin sorgulanması olduğu açıkca belli oluyor. Demokrasi ve Cumhuriyet’in o günkü anlamlarıyla nasıl işlediğini, Sezar’ın ve Çiçero’nun demokrasi anlayışları, rüşvet, politik ayak oyunları ve sınıfsal ezilmişlikleri o güzel üslubuyla anlatıyor Brecht.Bertolt Brecht's only novel, available in English for the first time, provides readers with an enthralling account of the narrator's attempt to write a biography of one of the world's great leaders. Giulio Cesare, il grand'uomo, descritto dal punto di vista dal suo segretario e revisore dei conti (l'autore del diario che un giovane avvocato romano, pregno di ideali e di retorica, decide di consultare per scrivere un biografia sul grand'uomo di cui sopra) e da quello del funzionario che era stato il suo pignoratore (e che possiede i diari).