I’ve shifted movies to watch Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra a movie I love passionately. Taylor played that to the hilt
I can not be the only history buff who gets tearful at the burning of the library of Alexander
Does anyone know of a good streaming version of Shakespeare’s Julius Cesar? I can’t stop comparing this (Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra) and Julius Cesar
I haven’t read Shakespeare’s Cesar for a decade or more and yet I can almost anticipate every word. I love this play. I can’t wait to watch ‘I Claudius’ though because who doesn’t love trashy Roman soap operas?
@Moxitude No, no you are not. It upsets me every time I think about it.
@Sophronisba just breaks my heart!
@Moxitude Yes, and for extra bawling, think of the sacking of the House of Wisdom during the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.
Quoth the Wikipedia: 'According to the writings of an eyewitness to the Siege, "So many books were thrown into the Tigris River that they formed a bridge that would support a man on horseback."'
@kwarizmi oh my goddess thanks for breaking my heart y’all. Wtf! All that knowledge!
@Moxitude Britbox has it (also available through Prime for a fee). It’s the 1979 BBC version.
@sanau Oohh thanks! I can jump from cleopatra to that and then to I Claudius!
@Moxitude I loved I, Claudius. So much so that I sought out Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars after watching the PBS series.
@GlennS I started that after seeing it too! I just got distracted along the way with life
@Moxitude Not at all :( I also grieve the loss of wisdom due to colonialization around the world pretty frequently.
@Tattoomonkey29 so many things destroyed. So much knowledge. It wrenches me in my soul
Srlsy Elizabeth Taylor still bursts off the screen, she was so beautiful and so powerful