![]() ![]() Its no wonder that he sometimes loses his temper and yells at anyone who has the misfortune of arousing his anger, as he violently did with Redbeard in Asterix in Belgium. ![]() In fact he believes that he already has, offering the crazy Gauls village as a gift to the drunken legionnaire Tremensdelirius in Asterix and Caesar's Gift!īut no matter how ingenious they are, his plans crumble one by one: economic weapons in Obelix and Co., the pernicious tactics of Tortuous Convolvulus in Asterix and the Roman Agent, the civilized housing designed by Squareonthehypothenus in The Mansions of the Gods, and so on.Įven worse, Asterix and Obelix continue to ridicule him by snatching his crown of laurels, or effortlessly completing the Twelve Tasks he has devised for them. Cleopatra, (Greek: Famous in Her Father) in full Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess), (born 70/69 bce died August 30 bce, Alexandria), Egyptian queen, famous in history and drama as the lover of Julius Caesar and later as the wife of Mark Antony. To do this, she decided she would have to win the support of Rome, which meant making an alliance with its leader, Julius Caesar. That never stops him from hatching the wildest schemes to finally subjugate our favourite. 16, 2021 12:25 pm EST In 48 B.C., Cleopatra, then the co-regent of Egypt, hatched a plan to take control of the entirety of the Egyptian empire. Indeed, Caesar is the worthy adversary who enables our indomitable heroes to stay noble, no matter how low they sink in their battle tactics. That is surely the explanation for the fact that René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo have always ridiculed his troops and henchmen, but never the person of the Emperor himself, who continues to be an enemy you can be proud of. It’s hard to imagine being born to more legendary parents than Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, whose relationship seems to have started out of political necessity: Cleopatra was working to. The more Caesar shows his strength and intelligence, the more our heroes grow up by resisting him. Instead, Caesar symbolises our irreverence of imperialism. Even though most great sagas require a major villain in order to reveal the true hero, we have none of that here. Her being with Caesar and Anthony led to deaths, Cleopatra had been part of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony deaths. And even though he is irate and authoritarian, Julius Caesar is not depicted as a merciless dictator, but as someone who is capable of acknowledging the Gauls when they occasionally help him out of a bind. Just observing the statuesque figure that Albert Uderzo often gives him is enough to show you how much the authors of Asterix respect him. ![]() The creators of Asterix have made Julius Caesar an exceptional character, taking care not to caricaturise this historical notable whose ∼omments on the Gallic War has been a major source of inspiration for them. As the last true pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra married two of her own brothers (as was custom in the royal family), won a Civil War against Ptolemy XIII, was mistress to and fathered a son (Caesarion, Ptolemy XIV) with Julius Caesar, and finally met and married her love, Mark Antony. Commentator on the Gallic War and grand purveyor of timeless sayings ![]()
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