# Julius Caesar — Character guide

> Key figures in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

- [Julius Caesar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/julius_caesar.md): Caesar stands at the center of Rome's political world, fresh from triumph, directing Antony to touch Calpurnia in the sacred race and dismissing a soothsayer's warning about the ides of March as the muttering of a dreame
- [Marcus Brutus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/marcus_brutus.md): Brutus moves through Rome as the man everyone wishes would open his eyes to his own worth, the noble name Cassius needs to legitimize any conspiracy. He confesses to Cassius that he is vexed with private passions and for
- [Mark Antony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/mark_antony.md): Antony opens the play as the athletic favorite who obeys Caesar's lightest word, then pivots into the most dangerous man in Rome by mourning Caesar publicly while privately vowing woe to the hand that shed his blood. He 
- [Caius Cassius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/caius_cassius.md): Cassius is the conspiracy's engine, a man Caesar himself distrusts for thinking too much and smiling too little, who works on Brutus by holding up a mirror and showing him the worth Rome is groaning for. He hates the ide
- [Octavius Caesar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/octavius_caesar.md): Octavius enters the story as the young man Cassius dismisses as a peevish schoolboy, yet he speaks to Brutus and Cassius with a cold formality that already sounds like command. He refuses to accept that Caesar could die 
- [Casca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/casca.md): Casca is the conspiracy's plainspoken witness, the man Brutus and Cassius pluck by the sleeve for an unvarnished account of Antony offering Caesar the crown three times and Caesar refusing it three times, each refusal ge
- [Decius Brutus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/decius_brutus.md): Decius Brutus moves easily among the conspirators, trusted to lead the procession and to bend Caesar's ear with honeyed persuasion. His particular talent is the well-timed compliment, the courteous lie that turns a man's
- [Trebonius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/trebonius.md): Trebonius is the quiet hinge on which the conspiracy's timing turns, tasked with peeling Antony away from Caesar's side at the crucial moment. He is remembered by Cassius as a man who 'knows his time,' and his brief, eff
- [Metellus Cimber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/metellus_cimber.md): Metellus Cimber approaches Caesar's seat with a petition for his exiled brother, his kneeling posture and flattering words designed to draw others close and create the moment for the attack. Caesar's cold refusal, his bo
- [Portia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/portia.md): Portia is bound to Brutus by a fierce, anxious love and a demand to be treated as an equal partner rather than a sheltered wife. She has already proven her resolve by giving herself a wound, yet in the street before her 
- [Calpurnia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/calpurnia.md): Caesar's superstitious wife who dreams of his murder.
- [Lucius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/lucius.md): Lucius is the boy who answers Brutus's call in the orchard before dawn, lighting the study and finding the anonymous letter that urges Brutus to 'speak, strike, redress.' He moves through the night's tension with sleepy 
- [Pindarus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/cassius_pindarus.md): Cassius's servant who mistakenly reports Titinius's capture.
- [Titinius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/titinnius.md): Friend of Cassius who dies by suicide after a misunderstanding.
- [Messala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/messala.md): Republican officer who brings news of Portia's death to Brutus.
- [Young Cato](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/young_cato.md): Brutus's ally who dies fighting at Philippi.
- [Strato](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/strato.md): Brutus's servant who holds the sword for his suicide.
- [Cicero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/cicero.md): Famous orator who appears briefly to comment on omens.
- [Soothsayer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/soothsayer.md): Prophet who warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March.
- [Cinna the Poet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/cinna_the_poet.md): Poet mistaken for conspirator Cinna and killed by the mob.
- [Claudius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/claudius.md): Servant of Brutus who helps guard his tent.
- [Lucilius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/julius_caesar_se/characters/lucilius.md): Friend of Brutus who impersonates him to save his life.

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