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Titus
Titus Titus is a name of Roman power and tragic grandeur — it belongs to characters who are larger than life, burdened by history, and often destroyed by their own severity or the cruelty of the world around them. In fantasy and gothic fiction the name conveys an ancient, decaying nobility; in historical fiction it grounds a character in the martial culture of Rome. It is never a gentle name.
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Famous characters named Titus
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus — William Shakespeare
A celebrated Roman general whose brutal cycle of revenge and counter-revenge drives one of Shakespeare's bloodiest and most relentlessly dark tragedies.
Titus Groan
Gormenghast — Mervyn Peake
The 77th Earl of Groan who rebels against the stifling ritual traditions of his vast, decaying castle in Peake's singular gothic fantasy.
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