Julius Caesar Part 3: Murder in the Senate
Real Dictators
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Julius Caesar is in a bind after defeating his great rival Pompey on the plains of Phaselus. He knows that he's being used, manipulated by the boy king's chief advisor Pothinus. A power struggle between Ptolemy and his older sister, the queen,. They're meant to rule as a couple, quite literally as husband and wife. But each is now vying for soul control of Egypt. The Egypt of Cleopatra is one far removed from the fabled land of the Pharaohs.
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