‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.’ Following Caesar’s death, his friend Mark Antony delivers an eloquent and rousing speech over Caesar’s corpse. He deftly turns public opinion against the assassins. The common people drive the conspirators from Rome.
Caesar’s great-nephew, Octavius, arrives in Rome and forms the Triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus. Antony and Octavius (standing, centre) decide to go to war against Brutus (seated right) and Cassius (seated left).
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