The opera is set in Egypt under the joint rule of Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy in 48 B.C. Julius Caesar has defeated his enemy Pompey but is outraged when Pompey’s ally Ptolemy kills ...

On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” ...

Famous ancient Stoic Porcia Cato was a woman of firm political convictions. She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an 1840 ...

Richard Nelson‘s “Conversations in Tusculum” reimagines the events preceding the assassination of Julius Caesar, and with the Ides of March just days away, his new play at the Public Theater gets ...