01: 44 to emphasize the point, iron maiden read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of the tragedy of julius caesar and the information in the paragraph below it. invokes a common cultural allusion. reverses a familiar literary allusion. o makes a joke about a historical allusion. o plays on a well-known religious allusion. excerpt: antony. friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. i come to bury caesar, not to praise him. the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interrèd with their bones. so let it be with caesar. background information: "the evil that men do" is the title of a song by the english heavy metal band iron maiden. the lyrics of the chorus say that people's evil deeds live on.