The official theme for this week was 'Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Power and Persuasion'. I'll admit that didn't sound like a huge bundle of laughs, but to me it was genuinely interesting.
Anyway, Prof East went to get a copy from her bookshelf and it was actually pretty high up on the shelves so I, like, watched her stretching up and I couldn't help noticing how nicely her black skirt just basically hugged her curves, which all seemed to be in just the right places.
Of course, I was kind of trying not to stare, but I was also kind of failing.
Like failing miserably. Or should I say wonderfully?
Anyway, I'm rambling, sorry!
So anyway my prof started on about the historical context for Julius Caesar's rule. As the Roman Empire expanded, she told me, generals were appointed for longer and longer periods. Part of the reason was that it could take months and months just to reach the outer edges of the empire. So these long-term generals got really powerful and really wealthy. They were basically funding massive armies from their personal wealth. Let me know if I'm boring you, but I personally found it really interesting. So anyway you got lots of fights and stuff, and the most famous was between a guy called Pompey and Caesar himself. Caesar basically won that one, and then he wanted to turn himself into a kind of Godlike figure and basically ditch the more democratic system. There were a lot of people pretty mad about that. Enter Cassius.
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In Love With Shakespeare
Fiksi UmumThe setting is at the house of the professor for a tutorial regarding the play "Julius Caesar". As the story progresses, our young girl finds her self becomes more and more enchanted by the professor and it leads to an encounter of epic proportion i...
