#gaius cassius

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

They came back to take a photo 📸

Redraw of one of my Ides of March artworks from 2018

Characters are Brutus, Cassius, and Casca. Caesar doesn't count here😏

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Shakespeare did Cassius so dirty. Dude got dragged into Crassus’ ill-fated assault on Parthia, kept begging Crassus not to trust their Parthian “helpers” (spies), barely survived a massacre and led the few survivors to safety, then fended off Parthian counter-attacks in Syria for years.

Then he sided with Pompey against Caesar, lost another war due to his commanding officers’ incompetence, fast-forward a few years and Caesar wants to fucking invade Parthia again.

I’d be feeling pretty stabby too.

[brutusjustifier]

get ready caesar

[illustratus]

The Death of Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[doobydoobydoowau]

imagine this: you're the baddest bitch in the Roman Republic. you have spent the past few decades fighting, fucking and planning to take control of the known world. you've killed millions of people. you became the fucking pontifex maximus and used some guy's idea to reinvent the calendar. you were the first roman to have a terrible vacation experience in the UK. you won a civil war. your best friend likes to commission naked statues of you and stand in front of them calling you a king at parties.

it's the 15th March 44 b.c.e and life is good. the people love you and you just became a dictator for life. you leave your mansion, ignoring your wife's pleas for you to stay (venus above that woman is in love with you) and shake off the soothsayer who keeps following you around and talking about your doom (spurinna is obsessed with you). you swagger into work, sit down, and are immediately stabbed by a bunch of your coworkers. you stagger around for a bit feeling sorry for yourself, before collapsing down dead at the statue of the guy that you had that civil war against. what a way to go.

[wishmemellon]

"Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?"

The Ides of March is upon us and Julius Caesar is still dead! I wanted to draw Cassius and Brutus to celebrate Tumblr's favorite holiday.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

"Free my man, he did all of that and looked sexy while doing it" - Brutus obtaining pardon for Cassius from Caesar.

[valeucine]

guys holy shit i think that gay couple just killed the dictator of rome

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

It is the Ides of March. You have nothing going on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep..

...Caesar?

[historical-kitten]

Inspired by @just-late-roman-republic-things' lists like this. XD I love them so much I had to try one.

The way ancient politicians escape a corn maze.

Octavian: He has scouted the route in advance and plotted a course. When he gets lost, he follows Agrippa out and takes the credit.

Agrippa: Literally the only one who finds his way out easily and on his own. He was never lost.

Mark Antony: He makes his way through somehow despite not planning a path. If he hits a dead end, he just pushes through the corn. At least once he hides in the corn and jump-scares Octavian to make him scream.

Lepidus: He entered the maze, but no one saw him exit. No one searches for him. Octavian says he made it home and Antony agrees. The fact they agree on this is concerning...

Cicero: He solves the layout immediately but then second guesses himself. As he walks, he audibly describes his thought process, pausing at every turn. Everyone behind him is in agony.

Dolabella: He sets the maze on fire after he finds out he still owes the entry fee and they won't waive it. He tries to blame Mark Antony.

Julius Caesar: He sends flunkies through to scout the maze for him and follows after they give him a map. He is dubbed the first to navigate the maze successfully.

Pompey: He gets lost on his own so he bribes someone to lead him out and after he exits, calls anyone else who had assistance to escape a cheater.

Crassus: He bought an aerial view of the maze beforehand and uses this to get out successfully. After Dolabella sets the maze on fire, he tries to sell the owner insurance.

Brutus: He navigates the maze successfully after he bands together with Cassius and essentially follows his friend out of the maze. Somehow he's the one who gets all the credit.

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

AND WITH EXACTLY. 3 MINUTES TO SPARE.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASSIUS

(Note: Brutus, Casca and Junia are NOT dating each other. Brutus and Junia are literally half-siblings and I will destroy shippers on the field of battle.

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Antony, 2 days after Caesar got shanked: Is that a knife in your toga or are you just happy to see me?

Cassius: That depends on whether you’ll make me need to use it again.

[a-little-nerdy-dude-with-wings]

Brutus and Cassius plotting to stab Caesar (44 BC, colourised)

[brother-emperors]

lupercalia, babyyyy! and suddenly, mark antony appears—

this is a re draw of a comic I posted back in October! If I bothered to keep track of dates, I would’ve scheduled this post weeks in advance and for much earlier in the day like I do with the Ides of March lmao

Nicolaus, Life of Augustus 72, trans. Mark Toher

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[cipher-of-the-round-table]

A report on Caesar’s Funeral: Antony Speaks!

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me.

[brutusjustifier]

a bunch of memes i made last week and forgot to post :p