CALPURNIA'S DREAM. A POSTHUMOUS LETTER TO CAESAR
A magical account of Caesar's Rome through his wife's eyes
Calpurnia's Dream
sábado, 13 de enero de 2018
Listen to Chapter 3
This is one of some many evenings that Calpurnia spends with her friends at Domus Publica. The three of them are remarkable Roman ladies: Cornelia Sulla, Portia - daughter to Marcus Portius Cato - and Martia - Cato's wife. But life won't be the same afterwards....
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Listen to Chapters 1&2
Calpurnia starts to bid farewell to her slaughtered husband and begins to be aware of what awaits her in the near future
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lunes, 21 de agosto de 2017
SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS: JULIUS CAESAR (IV)
Two crucial issues in the play: ambition and demagogy.
SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS:JULIUS CAESAR (II)
Main male characters of the play : Brutus, Cassius , Caesar and Antony.
SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS: JULIUS CAESAR (I)
This is the first of a series of videos on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. In this first chapter we analyse the historical background of the story
viernes, 6 de enero de 2017
EPILOGUE
EPILOGUE
Calpurnia
gave birth to a baby-boy on an undated day, possibly between that
year’s Saturnalia
and
Anna Perenna’s feast .She sent that son of hers to Gades so that he
should be brought up there, far from Antonius and Octavius’
interests. Once grown up, he returned to Rome. His wisdom, intense
eerie appeal.... and those eyes in which transparent blue could
become silvery drove him to seduce Julia, Augustus’ own daughter,
who included him among her favourite lovers. They had a daughter who,
thanks to her mother’s insistence, was fostered by would-be Emperor
Tiberius. When she became an adult woman, she unpredictably fell in
love with a common plebeian eques,
who, thanks to his privileged marriage, had the chance of becoming
the Governor of Judea. Like her grandmother almost eighty years
before, this noble matron, whose name was Claudia Procula, did not
succeed in convincing her husband, Pontius Pilatus, of the
seriousness of the prophetic dream that she had had the night before
and in which misfortune would be unlashed all over Judea and the
whole world due to an honest man who had been sentenced to death...
FINIS
Gades,
Ante Diem XIV Kalendas October MMDCCLVIII a.u.c.
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