Mark Antony

I would love...

You'll be such a good Mark Antony in Julie's

life.

Oh, that would be so good.

And the funny thing that happens after that is that it never goes backwards.

It never immediately after he dies, his followers, Mark Anthony, even Brutus start putting their face on the coins.

And so that's gone.

That's broken.

But yeah, that's a wild story, and that's why it's so cool, because it feels like the end of the empire, there's about 10 years, or end of the republic, there's about 10 years where there's just a bunch of really cool stories that come together.

Obviously, tons of people died and just terrible stuff.

and Cleopatra, I remember they

So I don't know that you want leaders to be like Othello or Hamlet or Lear either.

Maybe a Mark Antony from Julius Caesar.

Maybe.

I don't know.

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Having trouble remembering anybody else from that season.

But it was a murderer's row of people that aren't very good at things.

Oh, Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray was also in that season.

The first, I'm just going to break down director and writers

The new year opened with a letter.

On January 1st, 49 BC, a dispatch from Caesar reached the Senate, and it was read aloud because only two tribunes, Mark Antony and Quintus Cassius Longinus, pushed until it was.

Caesar offered to lay down his command if Pompey did the same, which in substance was Curio's proposal again.

the one 370 senators had already approved.

we are not told the details and i am not going to invent them what act tells us is that they were seeking to kill him this was no longer an accusation or a protest it was an execution being carried out by whoever happened to be standing closest in the open air by hand it would have taken minutes perhaps less and this is where the story turns in the most unlikely way imaginable because jerusalem was an occupied city and someone was watching At the northwestern corner of the temple platform stood a fortress.

The Romans called it the Antonia, named by Herod the Great in honour of Mark Antony, and it was not a decorative structure.

It was a stronghold built on a rock outcrop with towers at its corners.

and it looked directly down into the temple courts.

Yeah.

And the ring was found on Antirados, a submerged island that once housed a lavish Ptolemaic royal palace that is associated with Cleopatra and Marc Antony.

Oh.

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The new year opened with a letter.

On January 1st, 49 BC, a dispatch from Caesar reached the Senate, and it was read aloud because only two tribunes, Mark Antony and Quintus Cassius Longinus, pushed until it was.

Caesar offered to lay down his command if Pompey did the same, which in substance was Curio's proposal again.

the one 370 senators had already approved.

In fact, at that first RSC job where I had very few lines to say that I knew inside out, then upside down.

And I had a very key moment when I had to run on stage to Mark Antony where he was covered in blood.

And Caesar, it was Julius Caesar, obviously, right? I was lying on the floor and it's just before the interval and the lights go out and I have to run on and I have to see him and I have to burst into tears and I can't remember what I say.

But I have to say that one line I remember now I had to say, he says, what is your new servant? And I say, Octavius, Octavius has already come to Rome or something.