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Ancient literary works

• Caesar is referred to in some of the poems of Catullus (ca. 84-54 BC)
• He is depicted in Virgil's Aeneid (ca. 29-19 BC), an epic poem about the foundation of Rome
• He appears as a character in Lucan's Pharsalia (AD 61), an epic poem based on Caesar's civil war

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Medieval works

• A legendary account of Caesar's invasions of Britain appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (ca. 1136)
• In the 13th century French romance Les Faits des Romains, Caesar is made a bishop
• In the 13th century French chanson de geste Huon of Bordeaux, the fairy king Oberon is the son of Caesar and Morgan le Fay
• Caesar was considered one of the Nine Worthies, first written of in the early 14th century
• Caesar appears in Canto IV of Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy (ca. 1308-1321), in Limbo alongside Aeneas, Homer, Ovid, Horace and Lucan. His assassins, Brutus and Cassius, and his lover, Cleopatra, are seen in hell.
• Caesar's civil war and assassination are recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk's Tale (ca. 1385, one of his Canterbury Tales)

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Renaissance and early modern works

Theatre

• William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (1599) depicts Caesar's assassination and its aftermath, and has been adapted for the cinema several times

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Opera

• Handel's Giulio Cesare (first performed 1724)

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Modern works

Theatre

• Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a play by George Bernard Shaw

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Fiction

• Masters of Rome, a series of six novels by the Australian writer, Colleen McCullough
• Tros of Samothrace, a historical novel by Talbot Mundy, has Julius Caesar as the novel's villain. Mundy depicts Caesar and Roman civilization as imperialist and tyrannical.
• Emperor Series, a series of four novels by the writer, Conn Iggulden
• Roma Sub Rosa, a series of historical mysteries by the American writer, Steven Saylor
• Ides of March is an epistolatory novel by Thornton Wilder dealing with characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar.
• Sword of Caesar (1987), in the Time Machine series, asks the reader to travel back to ancient Rome and find the fate of Caesar's battle sword.

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Film

• Played by Fritz Leiber, Sr. in Cleopatra (1917)
• Played by Claude Rains in Caesar and Cleopatra (adapted from Shaw's play, 1945)
• Played by Harold Tasker in Julius Caesar (adapted from Shakespeare's play, 1950)
• Played by Louis Calhern in Julius Caesar (adapted from Shakespeare's play, 1953)
• Played by John Gavin in Spartacus (1960)
• Played by Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963)
• Played by Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo (1964)
• Played by John Gielgud in Julius Caesar (adapted from Shakespeare's play, 1970)
• Played by Gottfried John in Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar (1999)
• Played by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Druids (2001)
• Played by Alain Chabat in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
• Played by Alain Delon in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

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TV

• Cleopatra (1999 film) played by Timothy Dalton
• 2002 TV movie called Julius Caesar, which depicts his active life
• Empire (TV series), played by Colm Feore
• Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome (TV series), played by Ciarán Hinds
• Julius Caesar (2002) TV, played by Jeremy Sisto
• Wayne and Shuster's comedy sketch Rinse the Blood off My Toga is a spoof of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the form of a Dragnet episode
• Xena: Warrior Princess highlighted Julius Caesar as a major protagonist, played by actor Karl Urban
• Histeria!, where Caesar's appearance is based on Frank Sinatra
• Internet sitcom Custer and Julius: Beyond 2000 features a modern-day Julius Caesar, played by actor Steve Anderson.

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Radio

• In "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" - a 1958 episode of the British radio comedy "The Goon Show" parodying epic films - Caesar is portrayed by Peter Sellers as Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, with Moriarty as a centurion and sidekick.

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Comics

• A depiction of the Gallic War Commentaries of Caesar's, "De Bello Gallico" appeared in the now defunct "Classic Illustrated" comic series entitled "Caesar's Conquests" from the 1940's to the 1970's
• Asterix comics, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo, include a fictionalized Julius Caesar as a recurring character.
• Caesar appears in Neil Gaiman's Sandman #30, "August" (collected in The Sandman: Fables and Reflections)

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Games

• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego features Julius Caesar in one of its stages.

• Julius Caesar is a character in The Civilization game series.

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Rumours

The following quotation warning of the dangers of patriotism attributed to Caesar, or sometimes to Shakespeare's play, began appearing on the internet and elsewhere in 2001:

However, it is inauthentic. The quotation cannot be found in Caesar's works or any other ancient source, nor is it in Shakespeare, but nonetheless in 2002 political cartoonist Paul Conrad used it, attributed to Shakespeare, in a cartoon depicting George W. Bush as Caesar, and Barbra Streisand used it in a speech to a Democratic Party rally shortly afterwards.^[1] Conrads Chain Reaction peace sculpture in Santa Monica Paul Francis Conrad (born June 27, 1924) is a distinguished political cartoonist. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Barbara Joan Streisand (pronounced STRY-sand, IPA: ; born April 24, 1942) is a two time Academy Award-winning American singer and film and theatre actress. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic...

References

1. ^ Quotation debunked by Snopes.com, About.com and De-fact-o.com

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