#titinius

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

BEWARE.....them

[ Ides 2023 that deserves a repost]

Foreground: Cinna, Casca, Decimus, Brutus, Metellus, g.Casca, Titinius, Cassius

Background: Antony, Calpurnia, Caesar- at least.. it WAS Caesar. 🫡🙏🏻😔

#julius caesar #republic comic #beware the ides of march #caesar needed to beware them #ides of march #cinna #casca #decimus #brutus #metellus #g.casca #titinius #cassius #antony #calpurnia #caesar #lucius cornelius cinna #publius servilius casca longus #decimus junius brutus albinus #marcus junius brutus #metellus cimber #gaius servilius casca #marcus antonius #calpurnia pisonis #gaius julius caesar

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Titinius from Julius Caesar.

#titinius #julius caesar

[wasppilled]

#julius caesar #snail #titinius #titinius from julius caesar btw. a silly guy to me #polls

[republic-comic]

Credit to abraxas-calibrator OBVIOUSLY. Someone posted it on insta and I couldn't resist

#julius caesar #cassius #brutus #decimus #calpurnia #flavius #casca #marullus #titinius #cinna #antony #aniyah #gaius cassius longinus #marcus junius brutus #calpurnia pisonis #lucius caesetius flavus #lucius cornelius cinna #publius servilius casca longus #gaius epidius marullus #marcus antonius #aniyah the soothsayer #decimus junius brutus albinus

[skull-m0ss]

The snail in my ear is angry today

#ringing ears #whats the word for that #titinius #titinitus #idk #🫀 #skulls speaks

[salplover]

Julius Caesar Act IV scene iii is still one of THE most scenes of all time however those guys have got to stop using second person because over the weekend some friends and I performed the play for ourselves and every time Brutus said "Brutus" and Cassius said "Cassius" all I could hear was Elmo

#still the best play #shout out to Luke for calling titinius “tittyus” over my dead body #shakespeare #julius caesar

[ardenrosegarden]

The March dawn in Rome is the dayspring of republican hopes; the fading October day at Philippi marks their final defeat. Casca's assertive tones in the brief argument of 2.1 are words as gesture, and pass easily into the flourishes with which his sword cuts the air: first a little to his right, then a little to his left, lastly straight ahead in the direction of the Capitol where, a few hours hence, he will plunge it into Caesar's neck. The three bold movements combine the preliminary actions of a swordsman before a duel with the ritual gestures of a priest wielding the sacrificial knife. In contrast to this expectancy of voice and gesture, the long vowels and weighty monosyllables of Titinius's lament have a solemn finality that makes us feel the tide in men's affairs has exhausted itself on a rocky shore. At the end of the earlier passage, Brutus advances into the group of conspirators, and his hands and theirs are clasped in a complicity that will turn to deadly action when Casca strikes in earnest: 'Speak hands, for me' (3.1.76). On the battlefield, Titinius's cry 'Oh my heart!' sets the tone for the passage quoted and for the play's remaining scenes, dominated as they are by an impassioned fidelity which was thought literally to have its seat in the heart, and which finds its most eloquent expression in the Liebestod of Cassius and Titinius.

M.M. Mahood, Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare

#shakespeareedit #Julius Caesar #tragedies #personally I like it better to have titinius and casca as seperate characters and I'm happy we mostly do that nowdays #but the passage's idea of setting them up as mirrors of each other and two parts of a single cycle really intrigues me #rotating them in my mind. #still really into it as a double-casting choice tbh #also kind of laughing at ''casca the ruthless assasin'' given I just think of him as my Special Little Guy #my edit

[e-pistulae]

in today's letter: ok i will say. this letter and the one to brutus posted yesterday were written around the same time as one another and i chose to put them in this order because i think [depressing letter to cassius -> slightly less depressing letter to brutus -> maybe cicero is feeling a bit better now?] is less narratively interesting than [depressing but optimistic letter to brutus -> straightforwardly depressing letter to cassius -> i personally get the vibe that cicero is being more realistic about things with cassius. or doesn't want brutus to completely freak out]. also the letter to cassius comes second because cassius' is brutus' shadow self. and it's my translation and i get to choose the letter order that is narratively compelling to Me

ANYWAY. some guy has completely left behind his life in rome to go and join sexy sexy cassius in syria—and that guy is maybe titinius! who the fuck is gaius titius strabo! cicero recycles some of his letter to brutus! it's all going to shit!

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#tagamemnon #cicero #e-pistulae

[caterpillarinacave]

Brutus stabbing his best friend to death while Caesar looks him in the eye and asks "You too?" and all that led up to it may be deeply homoromantic but its got nothing on Titinius who, in the same play, leaves Cassius to go check and see how an army camp is doing, comes back to find Cassius has killed himself, so he lays a wreath of victory on Cassius brow, stabs himself, and dies right next to him.

#we really gloss over that though. I read it for the first time in 9th grade and was like “were not really just gonna skip over that are we?” #then we did #Julius caesar #ides of march #et tu brute #brutus #cassius #shakespeare

[bunnysrph]

hi! can you please make a list of ancient roman inspired names, including some that are less common/not straight from mainstream mythology? thank you!

—  𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒

below is a list of ANCIENT ROMAN inspired names. they are in alphabetical order, and split into 'masculine' and 'feminine' and 'unisex', for easier access. please LIKE / REBLOG if you find this list useful!

—  𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

Accius

Acilius

Acutius

Adiutor

Aedius

Aelianus / Aelius

Aemilianus / Aemilius

Aetius

Africanus / Afranius

Agathus

Agellus

Agricola

Agrippinus

Ahenobarbus

Akylas

Akylinos

Albanos / Albinianus / Albinius / Albinos

Alexinos / Alexinus

Amadias

Amicius / Amicus

Ampliatus

Ancus / Anicius

Annalis

Ansanus

Antoninos

Aphrikanos

Aquillius

Arrius

Arruns / Arruntius

Asper

Attius

Aufidius

Augoustinos / Augoustos

Augur

Aulos

Aurelianos / Aurelios

Aurius

Ausonius

Balbinos

Basolus

Bassianus

Bibulus

Blaesus

Blossius

Bonus

Britannicus

Broutos / Brutus

Caesarion

Calpurnianus

Caninius / Canius

Capito / Capitolinus

Cartilius

Carus

Carvilius

Casca

Castricius

Castus

Catullus

Caudex

Ceionius

Cicerón

Cincinnatus

Cinna

Clateus

Clodius / Cordius

Corellius

Coriolanus

Cornificius

Coropas

Corvus

Cossus / Crassus

Curius / Curtius

Dacianus / Dacius

Damasippus

Damasius

Datius

Decius

Defendens

Dentatus

Diaulus

Diocletius

Dolabella

Drousos / Drusianus

Equitius

Eulalus

Eumachius

Favian / Favonius

Martinos / Martius

Marullus

Maternus / Maturinus

Maxentios / Maximinos

Memmius

Messala

Metellus

Mettius

Minatus

Minervinus / Minervius

Miniatus

Minius

Montanus

Mucius

Munatius

Natalis

Naucratius

Necessitus

Nerius

Neron

Neroua

Nervas

Noma

Novatus / Novius

Numerius

Nymphias

Opimius

Opiter / Opiternius

Oppius

Optimus

Orestinus

Ostorius

Oualentinianos / Oualentinos / Oualerianos / Oualerios

Ouespasianos

Ouiktor

Oursos

Ovius

Paccius

Patrobas

Paulinos / Paullus

Pergentinus

Pertinax

Phabianos / Phabios / Phabrikios

Phaustinos / Phaustos

Phillipus

Phloros

Phourios

Pictor

Plautus

Pompo

Pontios

Poplios

Poppaeus

Portian / Portius

Poublios

Priscillus

Priskos

Probus

Processus

Proculus

Propertius

Pupillus

Quartus

Quintianus

Quiricus

Radix

Regoulos

Romanicus

Romulan / Romulanus

Roscius / Rosius

Rouphinos / Rouphos

Rullianus / Rullius / Rullus

Rupilius

Russus

Rutilius

Sabinos

Salinator

Sallustius

Satorninos / Satourninos

Savinus

Sawiris

Scaurus

Scribonius / Scribonus

Sedulius

Sekoundos

Sempronius

Senekas

Seouerianos / Seouerinos / Seoueros

Seppius

Serenos / Serenus

Sergios

Serouios

Sertor

Servilianus / Servilius

Servios

Severianos / Severinos / Severos

Silius

Sosius

Sporus / Spourios

Statilius

Statius

Sulpicius

Surdinius / Surdinus

Symphorus

Tarkynios

Tenagino

Terentios

Thrax

Tiberinus

Tibullus

Titinius / Titius

Torquatus

Toullios

Trebius

Turpilius

Ulpian

Ummidius

Valentinianos / Valentinos / Valerianos / Valerios

Varro / Varus

Venustian / Venustianus

Verus

Vespasius

Vettius

Vicesimus

Vinitius

Vipsanius

Viridianus / Viridius

Volesus / Volsus

—  𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄

Accia

Aconia

Acutia

Adelphasium

Aedia

Afrania / Africana

Aimilia

Akylina

Albinia

Amica

Anicia

Aniensis

Annia

Appia

Aquilia

Arria

Arruntia

Atia

Aufidia

Aula

Aureola

Auria

Avidia / Avita

Blanda

Caenis

Caesillia / Caesula

Caia

Caietana

Capitolina

Cartilia

Carvilia

Cassiana

Castricia

Ceionia

Cordia

Corellia

Cornificia

Crispina

Curia

Cypriana

Dacia

Domitiana

Drusiana

Eumachia

Felicula

Ferocia / Ferocilla / Ferocina

Floridia / Floridiana

Furia

Furnia / Furnilla

Fusca

Fuscinilla

Hostilia

Iaia

Ianouaria

Invidia

Ioulia / Iouliana

Ioulitta

Iuventas

Januaria

Joviana

Kaikilia

Kouinta

Lepida

Licinia

Livilla

Lollia

Loukilla

Loukretia

Lucillia

Luciola

Maecia

Mamerca

Mania

Materna

Maxentia

Maximiana / Maximina

Mercuria

Messalina

Metella

Mettia

Milonia

Mucia

Munatia

Naevia

Necessitas

Neruia

Novia

Octaviana

Opimia

Oppia

Orestilla

Orestina

Oualentina

Oualeria / Oualeriana

Phabia / Phabiana

Phausta / Phaustina

Pompeia / Pompilia

Poppaea

Potita / Potitia

Procula

Pulchra

Quadratilla

Quarta / Quartilla

Quieta

Quinta / Quintia / Quintiana

Quintilia / Quintiliana

Romilia / Romula

Roscia / Rosia

Rupilia

Rutilia

Sagitta

Sallustia

Saturna

Scaura

Scribonia

Sebine

Secunda / Secundilla

Sedulia

Semperbella

Sempronia

Seouera

Sertora

Servilia

Severa / Severiana / Severilla

Statilia

Stellatina

Sulpicia

Surdinia

Sympherusa

Symphora

Tatia

Terentia

Tiberia

Tita / Titia / Titinia

Tuccia

Turia

Ulpia

Ultima

Vipsania

Viridia / Viridiana

Vistilia / Vitalina

Vitellia

Volesa / Volusa / Volusia

—  𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐗

Agrippa

Aquila

Glaucia

Iovita

Merula

#name help #name suggestions #character names #character help #character guide #writing help #rp help #rph

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

🏛🗡🤭HAPPY IDES OF MARCH FROM THE BOYS🤭🗡🏛

nothing is happening in the background what are you talking about haha- ha.🤫😶‍🌫️

#julius caesar #republic comic #beware the ides of march #ides of march #casca #cassius #cinna #brutus #decimus #metellus #titinius #calpurnia #antony #gaius casca

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[Jeffrey Murray, Valerius Maximus on Vice: A Commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11]

#hello! i was thinking of 'accipe me fati tui comitem' so i opened the exact text that will make me chew on furniture #titinius #gaius cassius longinus #valerius maximus #articles/books

[eighttwotwopointthreethree]

who lives, who dies, who tells your story: a write up of new swan shakespeare's julius caesar

it's been a while since i watched a live production of shakespeare! and i hadn't really expected to spend this interval of my summer doing so, but the new swan shakespeare festival at UCI was doing julius caesar, which, if you know anything about this blog, is like my number one most favourite shakespeare play. so of course i had to go see it. and you can go see it, too, if you're in socal, alongside their production of as you like it, and the complete works of shakespeare (abridged) (which, if you've ever seen the reduced shakespeare company's filmed version, is really hilarious).

why is julius caesar my favourite play? i mean, besides the homoeroticism in the text between brutus and cassius (#brutecass4lyfe), julius caesar to me is just one of the most human of tragedies, one of the most prescient political dramas ever done. back in 2017, shakespeare in the park did a JC production that, controversially, portrayed the man as a donald trump-type figure. and you know what, they've got a point. julius caesar was a populist. literally, his faction was called the populares; he claimed to represent the will of the people, but ultimately was taking power for himself.

granted, brutus and cassius themselves were not scrappy revolutionaries trying to change the world for the better, for all that brutus likes to cloak himself in honour and high-minded ideals. their faction, the optimates, were of the ruling class in rome. they represented the people in power who disliked caesar's broader appeal. shakespeare (via cribbing from plutarch) points out that many of the optimates were simply mad they did not seize power the way caesar had. cassius was indeed born as free as caesar, with as many of the privileges and ruling rights as caesar; why should cassius bend the knee to caesar when the bitch can't even swim?

brutus, idealist that he is, also could not justify bending the knee. he did not want to lose his own power, though he couches it in shakespeare as a wish to remain free. it's through brutus' rhetoric about freedom that we get the idea of brutus and cassius as revolutionaries, when in truth all they wanted was to return to the pre-caesar status quo. and when they determined that the best way to usher in the revolution is through violence and bloodshed, they set forth the main tragedy of the play: that a revolution begun in blood will end in blood. we've seen this play out throughout the centuries: the french revolution, the russian revolution, pretty much every violent coup that ends in repressive regimes. as long as there are despots, there will be fodder for julius caesar productions. (cassius was onto something when he wondered how many times their actions would be played out in the future "in states unborn and accents yet unknown"!)

this timelessness was felt in the new swan production. the costuming was at parts roman-inspired, though not all the way through--people wore tunics reminiscent of southeast asian clothing, or hoods and masks, or--in the second half of the play--military camo atop their tunics marking their allegiances. one notable setting was the one for octavian and antony's conversation, set in what looked like a public bath. another notable costuming choice was caesar's majestic outfits--flowing, regal, queenlike.

the production notes mentioned a deliberate casting decision of 50-50 male-female roles, with antony, caesar, and cassius notably played as female, with their pronouns changed in the text to refer to them as female. calpurnia, caesar's wife, is taken out of the text and her lines given to lepidus instead, and the characters refer to him as caesar's husband--which does cause an interesting dynamic when lepidus says non-calpurnia lines in the bathhouse scene with antony and octavian. other roles were also condensed--cinna the conspirator was taken out of the text except in the scene with cinna the poet, titinius (our beloved plothole man) had his lines given to metellus cimber, and some of strato's lines were given to casca. also, strato's role in holding brutus' sword is entirely excised, which means that brutus stabs himself at the end, rather than implicate someone else in his death.

all in all, these changes led to a tighter-paced production, where the side characters like casca and metellus cimber were given more of a character arc than in the original. giving titinius' role to metellus cimber, for example, made cassius' death make more sense, because there was already established rapport between metellus cimber and cassius in the first part. (i would argue that in this production casca and cassius had more chemistry, though...)

another notable doubling choice was giving caesar's actor the lines for cinna the poet. i think that was striking for the production, because it made cinna the poet's death at the hands of the mob have a striking implication for this caesar's. who deserves to die, and who was just an innocent caught at the mercy of mob justice? was it only cinna? or was it caesar and cinna? if you ask mark antony, of course, she would say it was both of them. this production's mark antony did an excellent job in taking control of the narrative after caesar's death. i'm used to JC productions going to intermission after caesar's burial, but new swan deciding to do so after the dogs of war monologue certainly told me that that was the turning point--that by letting antony have any share in the narrative, brutus had signed the death warrant for his ~perfectly justified~ revolution. his idealism--his persistence in "civility" and "playing fair", was his fatal flaw.

a couple other scattered thoughts:

i could see that the production was more firmly on the 'bromance' side of the brutecass debate.

which, fair, yes, that is how people have traditionally read the dynamic, but i'm always a good sucker for a cassius obsessed with brutus to the point of dragging him down the path of destruction with her, and would love to see a bit more of this cassius' manipulative ability.

this cassius is fiery, sarcastic, and i do love the way she sinks to her knees in the tent scene when she offers her heart for brutus to stab, but...

i don't think this brutus is quite picking up what cassius is setting down. he's a liiiiiittle bit too heavy on the stoicism. the passion that he showed portia in her ONE scene with him? that's what i would have liked to see out of him in the tent scene, and in that forever and forever farewell cassius scene.

maybe i've just got deranged brutecass brainrot, but i do feel like the devotion that the two characters express to one another in the text itself is part of shakespeare's sympathetic portrayal of them.

i mean, otherwise, all we've got of cassius and brutus is that dante thinks they're such horrible betrayers that they're now forever being chewed on by satan in the ninth circle of hell, next to judas freaking iscariot. brutus and cassius are, as far as classic lit is concerned, sharing the afterlife together.

that's why their devotion to one another in shakespeare's play is so compelling. it's like cassius' one redeeming feature, that he's so unerringly loyal to brutus and only thinks the best of him. while brutus allowed himself to be seduced into cassius' conspiracy, and his own devotion to honour ends up signing away their lives.

and yet when cassius tries to warn him against letting antony take control of the narrative, cassius was still too in love with brutus to actually put his foot down and say no and stop it.

also this production's portia stole the show. in her one scene she was just incredible. badass. girlboss. 100/10 no notes.

according to the dramaturg, who was sitting near us during this showing, this show's caesar was an understudy because the other actor got covid? you literally couldn't tell because this caesar was spectacular. such mean girl energy. regina george would've been proud.

anyway, go see the production! or go see new swan's as you like it, or the complete (abridged) works of shakespeare. there's plenty of showings for the rest of this summer, and you'll be in for some solid acting and good fun.

#lily reviews shakespeare performances #julius caesar #new swan shakespeare festival #uc irvine #p: julius caesar

[globefan]

Julius Caesar pics part 2 (c) Helen Murray

Dickon Tyrrell as Caesar and Amie Francis as Calpurnia Cash Holland as Titinius Charlotte Bate as Cassius and Anna Crichlow as Brutus Omar Bynon as Pindarus and Charlotte Bate as Cassius Samuel Oatley as Mark Antony Dickon Tyrrell as Caesar Omar Bynon as Decius and Jack Myers as Casca

#julius caesar #Shakespeare's Globe

[hexjulia]

not me consistently misreading quintus titinius as quintus tinnitus. oh you know. quintus tinnitus, the ancient roman inventor of tinnitus!

#of course of course

[warsofasoiaf]

In the context of the entire ASOIAF universe I think Daenerys is not a great person (well-meaning though — most of the time) but as a POV character she’s kind of fascinating. It’s hard not to root for her even though it probably would be best if she made different choices; though that wouldn’t make sense given who she is.

The sentiment about characters that make incorrect but understandable decisions is actually a very important one when it comes to writing characters. A character that made nothing but perfect decisions isn't interesting to follow - they're a computer. It lowers the stakes of any conflict because the reader knows that the characters won't make mistakes in judgement. Logical mistakes, that is, mistakes borne out of a character's beliefs, can give us tremendous insight into how the character thinks and what they value. Cassius commits suicide in Julius Caesar out of the mistaken belief that Titinius is captured, and it gives us insight into his character. Earlier, he and Brutus said they're probably not going to survive, and so Titinius's supposed capture is all the proof he needs in his failure - Cassius believes all hope is lost. History itself has turned on misunderstandings, so it isn't surprising to see it played out in fiction. It fulfills plenty of dramatic beats - a misunderstanding can be the height of comedy or the pits of tragedy, when done well.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#writing