Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
New Humanists
00:00
The Beginning, Middle and End of Civil War
There's a cultural encouragement of emulation and rivalry. This is like just yet another in ment of civil war, exactly. It fits really nicely into the cycle of killing and regime founding that rome has. And we've hit on all of it already. We talked about lupercalia, which opens the play, which is the celebration of romulus and remus being suckled by the she wolf. But how does rome get founded? When romulus kills his brother for overleaping the walls of rome. And so the city's named after romulus. Then you get a new founding of r Rome when brutus's ancestor, unius brutus, expels tar
Play episode from 47:40
Transcript
