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The Rise and Fall of Brutus

The Ancients

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Brutus - The Last of the Roman Nobility

Antony of Rome is a play by William Shakespeare. In it, Antony describes Brutus as the most noble of romans. He says that antony respects what brutus has stood up for and represented. But octavian is not a republican - he grew up amid civil war to gain autocratic rule. Octavian killed every one who was related to his namesake in order to take on the mantle of caesar.

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