Means Burton-on-the-heath, “a small village on the borders of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.

How Shakespeare might have seen Burtonheath

Saint Jamy probably refers to a figure revered in the Middle Ages, St James of Compostella, here ironically contrasted with the irreverent Petruchio.

The Gordian Knot is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an “impossible” knot) solved easily by cheating or “thinking outside the box” (“cutting the Gordian knot”).

A Colossus is a GIANT statue. This simile characterizes Caesar as behaving like a Colossus so large that he walks alongside the earth.

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Nero

A great Roman military/political leader and a member of The First Triumvirate. Not to be confused with the city of tragic fame, Pompeii.

If you were ever wondering where Suzanne Collins got the name for her Hunger Games character (played by Lenny Kravitz in the film adaptation), look no further!

An ancient Greek unit of currency found in many Greek city states from Classical times on.

The Lupercal (from lupa, Latin for she-wolf) is a cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, between the Temple of Apollo Palatinus and the Basilica of Santa Anastasia. In the legend of Rome’s foundation, Romulus and Remus were found there by the lactating female wolf who suckled them until they were found by Faustulus."

Source: Wikipedia

At this same spot, so important to the founding of Rome, everyone witnessed Antony try to crown Caesar king.

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Caesar is one of many men whose “evil” acts overshadowed the good they were able to achieve, typically because their evil acts were hella evil ( Think Nero, Vlad the Impaler, and Adolf Hitler).

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Hitler actually did accomplish some pretty-alright things (that bastard). This is NOT an endorsement of Hitler, just the facts!

–Hitler invented the highway system
–Hitler was an animal rights activist
–Hitler conceived the idea for the Olympic Torch relay ceremony