The Death Of Caesar by Barry S. Strauss
The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
A vivid reconstruction of the events, motives, and personalities surrounding the Ides of March assassination, following the senators—most famously Brutus and Cassius—who conspired against a leader whose reforms and accumulation of power alarmed Rome; it narrates the plot, the stabbing in the Senate, the immediate chaos and Mark Antony’s fateful funeral oration, and how Caesar’s will and the rise of his heir Octavian transformed public reaction into civil war, arguing that the conspirators’ attempt to save the Republic instead set in motion the forces that made imperial rule inevitable.
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- 2015
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